PRISONER OF THE WAR!!

The dew drenched bench,

The rusted bench,

The dirty path,

And the shattered pieces of glass.

A cool breeze,

The howling wolf,

Sound of the waters hitting the shore,

And that shabby little whore.

Far across the street a blinding light,

Beautiful white and very bright,

Mistaken to be the moon,

Which has not yet rose in the sky to its full height.

Few more steps closer,

Not a moon I find,

I found a street light,

Fog hid the lamppost behind.

Mom I was afraid,

Not of death,

But how would I make out,

In the cruel world's depth.

I was brought this far away place,

When even the flying butterflies often left me amazed,

I held Papa's finger tight,

He motivated me not to fright.

I and Papa weren’t in the same room,

All the daylong I spent with a broom,

Every time I cleaned the corridor floor,

An officer would spit across the door,

And say in a harsh sarcastic tone,

“Do it again fella!!”.

I thought it was some kind of a game we were in,

Where the most obedient wins,

Only later I realized,

I was a top with no spin.

Very less of Papa I see now-a-days,

But I really miss how a lot more,

Days were full of work,

And sleep was a hard luck!!

Many nights I spent crying,

Wondering what Papa was doing,

After a very long time I got a call to visit Papa’s cell,

It just resembled me the feared hell.

Neither was he weak nor was he ill,

Fellow prisoners said that he was threatened to be killed,

I never even in my scariest of the dreams I dreamt of it,

To be all by myself and mourn for at my Papa’s feet,

He was murdered brutally,

I witnessed the cruelty at its peak.

No one to care,

And nowhere to go,

Now that I decided to escape,

But didn’t know how..??

A decade and a half of careful planning,

For the right moment to escape I was waiting,

Alas!! I am out now where I dreamt of,

Unfortunately it’s not the same as it dreamt of.

I go back in there I die,

And I walk forward too I die,

But I will never back down,

I would gypsy from town to town.

I will fly away to a place really very far,

Where I would no more be a PRISONER OF THE WAR!!