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I'm not a grenade


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A blinding light, a deafening blast

While mocking your social taboos

Arrived, in all directions we're cast

This battle we'll surely not lose

We crawl with bellies hugging the ground

And cling for our lives at our post

We fly through sky, bring barricades down

Revealing a terrified host

The victims flee or perish if stalled

We pray we leave none in our wake

A jumper finds us, goes for a fall

Survival itself is at stake

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As a matter of fact, I decided to hold onto this riddle for a little bit and post it now because that was one of the first things I thought of on a re-read looking for alternate answers. The clues that make it seem to not quite fit are probably the ones I added to keep fireworks from being an answer.

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Hmm... another guess.

Sparks of electricity/lightning?:

A blinding light, a deafening blast (A pop of static electricity, or the shorting-out of a piece of machinery)

While mocking your social taboos (?)

Arrived, in all directions we're cast (Sparks fly)

This battle we'll surely not lose

We crawl with bellies hugging the ground (Electrical sparks literally go to "ground")

And cling for our lives at our post (They follow lightning rods)

We fly through sky, bring barricades down (And can strike like lightning)

Revealing a terrified host ("Host" is a tricky word here - it seems to imply many people.)

The victims flee or perish if stalled (Unclear - people in a lightning storm?)

We pray we leave none in our wake

A jumper finds us, goes for a fall (A literal electrical jumper)

Survival itself is at stake

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Not sparks or lightning, it leaves some clues unanswered as you've noted.

Neither snakes nor termites. Unless they create a blinding light and deafening blast because they are exploding snakes and termites.

If you have a termite problem you don't know about, they could definitely create a deafening blast as your foundation crumbles.

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It kind of makes me think of Capture the Flag (Capture the Flag at camp was rather. . . interesting) but I can't get that to fit everything. The first line or two make me think of a starting pistol. The other lines make me think of various games like Checkers and Chess but I'm not sure what kind of game would use a starting pistol. Maybe some sort of sport.

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A burning building or a bulldozer.

But the more I think of the burning building, the more I like that answer... it just might be too close to an actual grenade...

Molly's has been the closest guess yet. I'll just say that it might help to think of this riddle as describing at times parts of a larger whole.

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