My objective is to confuse. My objective is to give clarity. I use words and phrases big and long, or tiny and small. I am a game to some, a nuisance to others. The only important thing is what am I to you?

I fall from clouds in violent streaks, yet live in walls where silence speaks. Wild, I burn; controlled, I serve, the same force, bound and observed.

I'm ordinary and unremarkable everywhere, except on the battlefield

Three: Pitch to a pit, downtrodden to tire Three more: Simply said, modest kin to acquire Intended recipient, lives under fire

I raise my owner's standards, whatever they may be. When people face me they oft salute, but it's never quite for me.