Love Versus Terrorism – Poems on Anti Terror , Peace , Love , Brotherhood – Part 1 by Nikhil Parekh - HTML preview

34. IMMORTAL SOLDIERS – PART 1

They ran on frozen ice; draping their bodies in threadbare minimum of inexpensive cloth,

Took their positions scrupulously behind incoherent lumps; aiming dead straight with their missiles.

They hardly paid attention to food; surviving on parsimonious amounts of water

compounded with intermittent meals,

Swirled their eyes rampantly in all directions; trying to track the slightest of movement; the most inconspicuous of sound.

They didn’t budge an inch at the sound of bullet firing; instead retorted back

with indiscriminate gunfire of their own,

Belligerently attacking with their grenades and tanks; trying vehemently to

push back the infiltrators.

They used their fists onerously to dig furrows in the snow; sequestering

themselves from the opposite camp,

Used every trick in their armory to entice the intruders; before mercilessly

assassinating them.

They constructed their camps in the inclement cold; dexterously spreading the

heaps of canvas they had onerously carried on their shoulder,

Listened diligently to crisp voices emanating from their walkie talkies;

endeavoring to adhere to every command of their seniors as stringently as

possible.

They were quite accustomed to the obstreperous noise echoing far and distant

throughout the valley; as it was an indispensable part of their lives,

Incessantly chalked plans to capture their adversaries with surprise; without

giving them the tiniest of insinuation.

They hardly talked about their miseries; the streams of blood trickling

down their bare palms,

Instead courageously pepped up each other; envisaging the sweetness of victory; applying cold water to their wounds as an antiseptic medicine.

They audaciously struck their swords into their opponents chest; remaining

unperturbed by the tyrannical gasps of profound anguish,

Took several soldiers at a time; still remaining invincibly triumphant in the

end.

They remembered their families on infinite occasions of time; nostalgically

reviving the blissful moments they had spent back home,

However phlegmatically shrug such thoughts away; when they saw them interfering with the safety of their country.

They were unrelentingly fighting to save their nation; at prime cost of sacrificing their lives; ensuring that a majority of their population rested cozily in their homes,

I considered myself nowhere near the most obscure fractions of their shadows;

as I was dying every moment to save my cowardly life,

While they lived for centuries unprecedented even after death; as they had

deservedly earned the proud status of being "IMMORTAL SOLDIERS".