Life of a Soldier
BLIZZARDS PERSISTENT FOR SEVERAL DAYS , HOSTILITIES BEGUN BY CONSTANT CEASEFIRES .
ENEMIES STRIVING HARD TO OCCUPY NO - MAN’S - LAND ,
IS OF GREAT ADVANTAGE TO ANNEX AND BE WORTH.
HUGE CORPS DEPLOYED , AIR – BASES SET UP , ANY MOMENT WAR MAY DECLARE .
COLONEL ORDERED TO INFORM RELATIVES , ON A SPECIAL TRAINING , MOBILES NOT ALLOWED .
SIX PERSONNEL MARTYRED – INCLUDING A MAJOR.
RHANDRA , A WEEK LATER , MARRIAGE WAS FIXED , TWELVE YEARS OF INSEPARABLENESS , DEVIATED BY A BULLET .
THE ONLY BREAD WINNER OF FOUR SISTERS AND OLD PARALYSED MOTHER , NO MORE WITH US .
BODY DROWNED BY SNOWY LAYERS , FUTILE TO UNEARTH .
I OPENED THE CRATE , SAW THE BARBIE DOLL , MY DAUGHTER ASSERTED FOR ,
A VALIANT MILITARY BRAT , SELDOM WE CAN FIND .
PROUD OF HER FATHER , BRASH AND MIGHTY ,
WOULD NOT SHADE TEARS IF I DIE ON DUTY .
MY WIFE WILL CRY , BUT NOT TO WORRY ,
I HAVE A SCION , AS BOLD AS COURAGEOUS ,
IN MY ABSENCE WILL BRING HOME THE BACON .
WITH INJURY IN LEG TODAY I MAY REPLETE , BUT WITHOUT DEFEATING THE ENEMIES WE CANNOT SUCCEED .
I AM A SOLDIER – AT – ARMS , BORN TO PROTECT MOTHERLAND ,
TODAY I AM BREATHING , TOMORROW MAY NOT SUBSIST.
Copyright © Niladri Sekhar Pal | Year Posted 2020
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