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Feb.8.2026
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Danger Zone
That night, in a strange place,
I was like a fly
circling around a street light
reeling…reeling!
I felt so miserable being stranded
in a strange place where I knew none.
Fear wrenched my throat.
I had heard,
in the cover of dark
everyone was a robber
or a masked assassin!
Without a roof over my head
I was like a mole,
smoked out of its hole
and exposed to blaring light.
Had it been my own town
where I knew
every nook and cranny
like the lines of my palm
I wouldn’t have minded
being so stranded or left in the night.
At a distance-
Behind the cover, I saw
two figures crouching;
Two men hooded and in black.
They were pointing to me.
So sure, I was in a danger zone.
I closed my eyes,
covering them with my palm.
I knew they were planning to plunder me
and spring on me like a pack of wolves.
In that unearthly hour,
an eerie fear gripped me.
Frozen with thoughts of imminent danger
did my heart stop pumping?
I saw death face to face.
All I longed was to slither out of that hole
to curl up in the warmth of my home
far… far away!
Before I could decide what to do
a car came and halted, may be seeing a lady,
all alone in the night.
Without a second thought, got in to the car.
Inside was a family coming back after a pilgrimage.
As the car was speeding away,
I felt the relief of being saved from that danger zone.
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