Kill the Fear of Death
In the battlefield of bloody action the soldier
Charges with the loaded gun on the shoulder
Across the battered ground ripped by mines
In the mind revenge and rage sorely combine
There is no way for death’s notion to enter
For his eyes are fixed on the enemy not far.
The risk of dying any moment maybe lurking near
Doesn’t make his steps to march forward slower
The face of his little daughter waiting at home
Smiles in a faded photograph in his pocket alone
He has no time to look at her smiling face now
Because he is here to kill that is what is his vow.
He is on a task in the battlefield to kill at sight
With tough hands that held his daughter light
With the mind that dreams the future for her
With the heart that will keep her there forever
Fear of death is killed by the urge to live for her
That’s why the human life is taken by the soldier.
A soldier in battlefield isn’t a slayer on the prowl
He attacks and kills for people’s cause after all
The motive that compels him to fire the bullet
Beyond the cause is to destroy the fear of death
Become a soldier fighting in life’s battlefield
If you want the creeping fear of death killed.
August 8, 2017
Copyright © Subimal Sinha-Roy | Year Posted 2017
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