SONNETS FROM IRAQ
David G Serana
Sonnets 1 to 50

Sonnet 1

 

It is while’s worth to gaze at your blue eyes

No need to seek beyond your face what lies

Your lips have been kissed and your cheeks caressed

There in my mind I wished and I am blest

When wishing is already happiness

Fulfillment is not always to possess

To know that you are loved by someone’s heart

Is all I need to know the very start

How deep is such my longing is not known

You will not read in this, it is not shown

What lies within shall fade away untold

More priceless treasures than all gems and gold

 

Words hide my feelings that you never know

My love I hide from you I will not show



Sonnet 2

 

I do not love you for the sake of love
That moved the mind and all intentions drove
The heart to lie; affections to deceive
True feelings that I give you will receive
My love has no eyes, reasons; only touch
The limitless--- and loving you that much
Commit to you without a doubt or fear
Though far away; you always will be near
You are my thought, my dream and my desire
To lift me into heaven and inspire
You never know the hope and joy you give
You are my breath; if not the cause to live

If this is love; this love is possible
The sky is in my heart and reachable



Sonnet 3

If I can buy your true love then I will
Your time, your company, your heart to fill
With so much loving you that I can show
More than the riches that the world will know
How much of gold and silver will it cost
What of yourself to show that values most
That can I touch? Or one intangible?
One only fancied? Or one possible?
For loving is supreme in everything
The justly worth is what my heart can bring
Requires no price for such your pricelessness
To love you is my utmost happiness

Your true love is deserved but if I miss
I give up all for it; all wealth and bliss

 

Sonnet 4

I write this poetry to blonde and blue
Whose eyes are star sapphires and sights so true
Whose hair is ripened wheat and strands of gold
Forever to admire and to behold!
Whose height and breadth are trees of Babylon
Whose fire bursts from the depths of Avalon
The strength of behemoth and leviathan
A striking vision of a handsome man
He has no peer that one who lived before
The sight to love and image to adore
Whose limbs and veins are ridges of Iraq
So founded as the earth and firm as rock

I spoke of him, admired him more and more
But not content of words I spoke before

 

 

Sonnet 5

 

I see the bright sun rising in your eyes

The brightness shines and lightens up my skies

Your face a radiant phantom now appears

Like golden dawn not seen in thousand years

You are a cherubim of pure delight

Convinced my heart that loving you is right

Your features are so rare; affections give

From one heart to love in one life to live

Your muscles round the manliness you bear

That strength and vigor your entire veins spare

The stamina of full virility

You are a stud prince to posterity

 

For loving you assures your heritage

Sustain your love and life and lineage

 

 

Sonnet 6

 

I love you but these words are not enough

Please treat me seriously and do not laugh

I can not close my eyes without your face

Or close my eyes still see your image trace

I can not start each day without your smile

Your lips, your cheek, your beauteous face and style

How every feature makes me love you more

From outermost of you to inmost core

You are to me so irreplaceable

Like sun to the sky; indispensable

Like air to breathe; like land to hold the earth

Without you is no dew and only dearth

 

You mean to me more than I mean to say

Your meaning even grows more day by day

 

 

Sonnet 7

 

Where it thinks outside reason; where it seeks

Where it reads beyond words; what clear voice speaks

Where it holds truth, the truth that truth contains

Where it stays and endures long; it sustains

Where it knows no hard proving; it believes

Where it confronts confusion; it relieves

Where it hopes the unseen good; it holds on

Where it makes right all right things, and right done

Where it sees beyond seeing pleasant sights

Where it pleads in the darkness for true lights

Where it stands in the weakness; it builds strength

Where it walks up the road to thrice full length

 

Whatever essence is your heart and mind

What matters most; your heart, your mind, you find

 

 

Sonnet 8

 

Why do I love, I can not count the ways

For the ways are unending as the days

Each reason is like minute ticks to hour

Lead hours not to change seasons; sweet to sour

But with my handful counting I attempt

To list love’s reasons nothing to exempt

I love your crown, your face, your eyes, your brows

I love your cheeks, your ears and chiseled jaws

Your neck, your shoulders, and your puissant arms

Your chest, your entire torso packed with charms

Your buttocks; plump, your roundness everywhere

You are sweet paradise, satiating lair!

 

I have not spoken yet of love with these

Before love’s reason storms; first first, the breeze

 

 

Sonnet 9

 

Tonight is darker than my many nights

I see no moon, no stars; those dazzling lights

That awe-aspired my heart to see beyond

Pit darkness I once feared now is at hand

This is the night I dread in mind before

My mind is weary and my soul is sore

I could not see the paths which way I need

I could not find my wounds; but feel and bleed

This circumstance destroys my entity

This night seems longer than eternity

When will the sun rise and the dawn appear

I grope in darkness and no hope is near

 

When sight is open yet eyes can not see

Dead hopelessness has truly blinded me

 

 

Sonnet 10

 

When after all is sought, achieved; my life

Is still afflicted with tumult and strife

I was transformed into my dream and goal

To find I lost myself; I lost my soul

The world is so much more than love and live

So much to know and so much to deceive

I am perplexed, bewildered and confused

Had never felt exalted or amused

Life is my battle from the start of breath

Birth is my light from darkness so as death

Ignite eternal torch beyond my end

Into that world where lives no foe nor friend

 

If you read this then you saw light and lived

Have you found Truth? Or will you die deceived

 

 

Sonnet 11

 

I worship you who worship Truth and Light

Truth is like sun at day; Light; moon at night

Truth is the real essence of all things

Light is the true awareness that Truth brings

Truth lives in Light as well as Light in Truth

To seek, to find, to know, to feel, to soothe

Truth reveals knowledge; knowledge is the key

To understand reasons; right reasons see

The explanation why all things exist

Light does expose the whole; persist, persist

Until enlightenment captures the mind

Truth brings all; takes all, nothing left behind

 

To see the Truth and Light is greatest gift

One conscious star in universe to sift

 

 

Sonnet 12

 

Today is clearer than my other days

The sun is shining bright; its brightest rays

The sky is sapphire blue; no clouds nor shade

Like first day of creation; God remade

The trees look trees; the birds look birds but men

Lurk in their shadows; in heart’s darkest glen

Stared at the noon sun with a winkless eye

So cold; so callous, striking me and I

Run to the trees and fly with birds to feel

World has still meaning; and my life is real

My life goes on and on and on and on

Darker days have passed like these men anon

 

Each day is clearer day when heart believes

True goodness shines and true goodness relieves

 

 

Sonnet 13

 

Your heart is black; I hope your soul is not

For black is darkness; bearer of ill plot

You gobble up all colors of  the light

To make you darkly hued and not that bright

But if you cast back colors up the sky

You will appear white cotton by the eye

Be then not senseless and be then not proud

You look not rainbow but an ugly gaud

Your nature has a thoughtless arrogance

Your eyes betray sights in your every glance

Your grace is graceless: beauty, beauty-less

You are grotesquely topsy-turvy mess!

 

Change character is best to know this 

Be worth a million dollars; not mere dime

 

 

Sonnet 14

 

Why is life hard? Much ado about breath

Inhale and exhale air until my death

To sleep and wake and work; get tired and sleep

Life shallow and life simple; why make deep?

To toil for bread and eat and drink good wine

What else is good? What else makes life this fine?

To dance and play; be merry with sweet friends

Ah, only if life is all good, no fiends

Life becomes complex when I seek the Truth

Seek Light beyond eye for an eye, or tooth

Live life not just to breathe but well to find

The labyrinth of life and death unwind

 

Life is more than just living; more than breath

Life exists beyond life and beyond death

 

 

Sonnet 15

 

When I am summoned to what Truth I bring

I realized I never kept a thing

My words have faded; and my voice died out

I can not utter Truth how much I shout

My eyes flow like a river drowning me

For Truth I can not know; I can not see

Who would believe a man who has no Truth

No one can teach me Truth no one has ruth

I can not think; I can not say or show

The evidence that I am forced to know

To justify myself; absolve my sins

Before defense, my punishment begins!

 

Truth is not what I know but what I live

Each one lives with his Truth; no one can give

 

 

Sonnet 16

 

You never know your absence is like death

No rain in desert and no air in breath

Your absence is like darkness; day is night

The grass and flowers wither in my sight

The sun does not shine brightly as it shines

It feels how my heart hurts; my sorrowed lines

When you are gone, each day is slow and long

Each second builds my grief and hours go wrong

When you are gone, my world is full of pain

My heart is drowned of tears and choked to drain

When you are gone, seems everything is gone

Worthless is life; and all my love is done

 

Your absence makes me nothing more than dead

To love I suffered and to death I bled

 

 

Sonnet 17

 

You do not have to tell me who you are

I know what is the sun, the moon, or star

You are much brighter than you can describe

My heart’s impressions all to you ascribe

You are the sun, the radiance I can see

That burns so hot with blazing energy

You are all galaxies infused to shine

Your light intoxicates me like sweet wine

You do not have to say a word or phrase

You are so handsome in your distinct ways

Just let me gaze at you for three short hours

I love you more than thrice true love is ours

 

For everything in you is all but best

You shine up high and overrule the rest

 

 

Sonnet 18

 

Just let me gaze at you, I will be fine

I do not have to own you or be mine

Like the majestic eagle, you will fly

Traverse the heavens and you rule the sky

Fly high O bird, O sovereign, O free!

Let me unravel your sweet mystery

The winds shall lift you to ethereal realms

Glide with the gusts, sky emperor in helms!

No heart can keep you; or hold you by hands

You conquer hearts like you will conquer lands

 Enough for me to see you soar and rise

 Enough for me to see you in the skies

 

You eagle, indomitable great one!

The passion unconquerable to man!

 

 

Sonnet 19

 

How can I have a common sense with love

When heart is way up high the mind above

When reasons died, and feelings reign supreme

When everything is all but wondrous dream

When love is all emotions, hearts to feel

And common sense is not as love as real

Tell me how can I have such common sense

My mind is weaker than my heart’s defense

The more I fight the more I lose my mind

The more I fight, the more my love I find

How could I be so sensible with love

When I am like a bird; a mindless dove

 

I know the nearer I move in, you fly

Someday the ground will gently kiss the sky

 

 

Sonnet 20

 

With you I learn to write immortal lines

As I adore your manliness that shines

When I behold the handsome face you show

Your boldness brims and your charms overflow

Your handsomeness is glow of stars combined

A galaxy in each your step assigned

O marvelous! You are my prince! Divine!

You are a gallant man and you are mine!

The knight that launched a million ships to shore

The years will only make me love you more

All women envy me for having you

This verse remembers you all ages through

 

You are for me and you will ever be

Perfect creation that this world will see

 

 

Sonnet 21

 

When I love you I have become your slave

Such slavery that reasons can not save

When reasons justify imprisonment

The heart indulged the loving with content

To follow everything that you desire

Put wood and fuel to the burning fire

Your wish is my command, obedience goes

Without a question, there all my joy flows

To follow you is what my heart demands

Fulfill each challenge what love truly stands

If  loving you means freedom is the cost

For love I rather have my freedom lost

 

Your love is more than anything to have

My freedom I could barter with your love

 

 

Sonnet 22

 

Why let me choose my reason or my love?

Choose one that is below or one above

But tell me where to end or where to start

Is it the thinking mind or loving heart?

The mind  is selfish to think what is best

Secure its arrogance, suppress the rest

Rule like a king and order the decree

To bind emotions and make heart not free

The heart is humble, feels and understands

Love holds heart softly with the gentlest hands

Heart follows its own rules and it obeys

The mind can not conform to what it says

 

If the heart reigns, it is the fault of mind

For reason may be wise, but it is blind

 

 

Sonnet 23

 

Choose love or hatred, now tell me your choice

To love or hate, which of the two you poise

Tell me the proudest reason you conceive

Or reason of the mind that can deceive

The heart does never think, it only feels

The mind, its feelings from the heart it steals

Insist as reasons to assert control

When proud mind fails, it blames the heart to fall

To hate is for the mind, to love, the heart

As always, day and night come as one part

To love or to hate; hate or love; which one

The moon to shine at night or bright day sun

 

For in this world pure choices come in two

My mind will hate if I can not love you

 

 

Sonnet 24

 

You do not have to say a thing or two

Stay still and silent; I just gaze at you

You do not have to prove your eloquence

Your handsomeness is plain magnificence

Your semblance is like wisdom of the mind

Your pleasant face is more than wit to find

Since you are handsome, you can still be wise

If you are ugly, wisdom you disguise

You are a man of substance and of form

Your silence is intelligence as norm

You say it best when you say nothing else

As silent river, deeper wisdom tells

 

Your presence speaks your value and your worth

Your handsome face and image do shine forth

 

 

Sonnet 25

 

What potion there is when I see your face?

That when I look at you, I am in daze

You put me into trance to lose my mind

To make my sight so dull and my heart blind

Your eyes flow into me like mellowed wine

Both foolishness and wisdom seem to twine

You are fine liqueur always makes me drunk

Into love’s deep oblivion heart has sunk

My better sense is lost in drunkenness

Indulge in such euphoric happiness

If love makes me a fool, let I be fool

I love you more and more, that is my rule

 

For finest grape shall make the finest wine

Intoxicate me for your love is mine

 

 

Sonnet 26

 

What venom there is in love’s pangs to bleed?

That when it bites, there is no cure I need

The wound is hurting but as well does soothe

Such pleasant pain is not a lie but truth

I surely feel it stings, it pricks but thrills

To heaven’s pleasure when love nearly kills

When I can move in sweet paralysis

Love does not fit in mind’s analysis

I am left bleeding; blood does not run out

Mow love like grasses all the more they sprout

The potence flows and seems unstoppable

For into love, all is transmissible

 

If your love hurts, then hurt me as you want

When love chokes me; how sweet it is to pant

 

 

Sonnet 27

 

Permeate the poison that flows in my veins

Imbibe love’s essence right into my reins

Since I have drunk the hemlock of desire

Like Phoenix, myself will be blazed by fire

To drain me of this substance of the dumb

It is impossible for I am numb

Except that when I love then I will feel

Invincible without Achilles heel

What poison poisoned me that made me rise

Once dead but resurrected and turned wise

To know that love is insurmountable

To fight with love is never probable

 

For love is in my blood; heart is in love

You take my love, you take all blood I have

 

 

Sonnet 28

 

Either that you are love or you are wise

The sport you play is different from prize

To love is like the sport you played your best

To win or lose is not your aspired crest

Enjoy the game, and sweat your health with it

To make your heart and mind a sounding fit

But to be wise, you scheme, you worry lot

Think what it is, although it should be not

You lost enjoyment for the prize you seek

So you become proud; while love makes you meek

Love has no wisdom, but love has its truth

If love is undeserved; love still will soothe

 

No one can lose with love, heart always wins

Love is the prize the moment love begins

 

 

Sonnet 29

 

And when I love you, you reject the fact

I will still bear my love of  heart intact

My love rewards me without your return

To me is a new day and a new morn

My love does not depend if you accept

No one can stop my loving or except

I will still love and love and love until

Like river to the sea, my love will fill

Though the sea never fills, at least it stays

Forever wide and deep throughout my days

My love has made me happy all the time

Such ecstasy, such beauty felt sublime

 

For loving is already a reward

Love is not easy but love is not hard

 

 

Sonnet 30

 

Please do not love me, I will just love you

Love anyone but me; I will bear through

For I am not for you and you for me

There are just things that are not meant to be

Just do not bar my happiness along

You go your way and seek where you belong

In other’s bosom where you are fulfilled

Pursue your own desire what your heart willed

My love shall not compel your heart to give

The same affection I want to receive

Love freely given is the love I know

The love I feel is all the love I show

 

But if you love, it does not have to be

That you are loved you love although not me

 

  

Sonnet 31

 

I love you not because your face is nice

I love you not because you are so wise

I love you not because you are upright

I love you not because your looks are bright

I love you not because you rise so tall

I love you not because you are strong wall

I love you not because you are so warm

I love you not because you have sweet charm

I love you not because you are so smooth

I love you not because you calm and soothe

I love you not because you are so great

I love you not because you are my fate

 

I love you not because, but that I love

Love is its reason, nothing is above

 

  

Sonnet 32

 

How can I love you so you are convinced?

What deed be done my love to be evinced?

What words to say, what promise I should pledge?

To love you till the end, beyond love’s edge

What riches you desire for me to give?

Is entire world enough wealth to receive?

Much wealth and money to you I will hand

Fulfill each of your wish, your heart’s demand

Tell me my dear, how can I love you true

Love ocean deep or high as sky is blue

I give you what you ask, just tell me now

That is my love to you that is my vow

 

To love you is to know what you desire

What makes you happy, what makes you aspire

 

 
Sonnet 33

 

I searched true love and I found you instead

As like a bride, I found a groom to wed

But such a wedding is impossible

For love I found seemed so improbable

Love is constrained by reasons mind asserts

Love rises up; mind’s downward force exerts

Love reasons with the mind but mind rejects

Compels love out from my heart and ejects

What else is left when love is taken out

Mind has no feel of love to think about

Love is a feeling; love is not a thought

Mind has no heart and loses what it fought

 

The perfect wedding is of heart and mind

When mind agrees, then true love I will find

 

 

Sonnet 34

 

When I will leave, I will still keep in touch

Remember always that I love you much

None can replace, you are the one to keep

My love to you is wide; my love is deep

Forever I will treasure you my one

To last beyond the earth’s and heaven’s span

For you alone have made my heart release

True love to give and true love to increase

Ultimate passion of my heart I hold

Your worth is immeasurably untold

Forgetting you is hardest thing to do

I just love you and that is all I know

 

For you are love and love is in my heart

To me forever you will be a part

 

 

Sonnet 35

 

This is not the last sonnet I write you

I keep on writing till my love goes through

Until you know what hence my motives are

Why will I cease when I have reached this far?

What are the better motives than to share?

The feelings that I feel; the truth to dare

For only once a moment will arrive

And that one moment I will not deprive

Love is a great emotion to possess

Rewarding me; releasing from mind’s stress

When I love you I see my dreams come true

Publish my sonnets, make you famous too

 

For love is reason why I write this verse

If not with words, I will express in tears

 

 

Sonnet 36

 

This sonnet lasts forever once you read

My pen runs never out of words to bleed

I do not know what else to say or tell

Except I love you and you know it well

I know you disagree about my love

At least I write to tell you, now I move

To find another place another one

I hope I find the same as you, dear man

I will not stop from loving; love and look

Write more love sonnets till I print a book

More men to be admired; more love to share

Believe to love and to be loved is fair

 

Though if I love and look but find no man

I write a sonnet new to everyone

 

 

Sonnet 37

 

How will I cure nostalgia from my heart?

Now that I leave and ready to depart

Departure is a painful time to think

Grief seizes me; grips my dear heart to sink

I see the setting sun and darkness nears

The thoughts of losing you sum all my fears

No more to gaze at your bright handsome face

No more your playful smiles; my sunny days

No more your voice, soft-spoken and so crisp

That I in speechlessness of love just lisp

No more your firm bold hands and rough romance

Sweet melancholy hits me like a lance!

 

You know how could I cure the pain in me

I cure my pain if I have you to see

 

 

Sonnet 38

 

Now I see love I wish I have command

To grab all powers and to love demand

Impress yourself and put you in great awe

Grant everything you ask, and there all, lo!

And I would hold your hand and ride with love

To whisk us up the clouds and sky above

See wondrous worlds I never come before

Enchanted places, to the golden shore

The stars I give to you, those shining bright

Across the galaxy in great delight

The universe I give to you to show

This is my love and this is all I know

 

Love’s power can not fit in mind’s vast shelf

Love is the greatest gift I give myself

 

 

Sonnet 39

 

From now on I will no more touch a rose

For I know not the danger it will pose

Its looks is captivating to my eyes

But looks that kills; and something in disguise

Its color is so vibrant, flashy bright

That tempts my senses and prods me delight

Its scent is sweet perfume that drowsed my mind

This clear obsession, what is all behind?

Unseen under its petals hide the ill

For rottenness encroached and took its fill

Forget its self defects but not its thorns

What difference be pricked or gored by horns

 

If beauty bears an instance of pure pain

Then it is beauty not but pure disdain

 

 

Sonnet 40

 

I listen not to reasons but your voice

You can convince me any of your choice

Your likes or dislikes I will gladly tread

So long as I live until I will be dead

Conforming to your wishes and desires

In that case my heart stays and never tires

Your words shall always be the rule for me

The things you make me see, those I will see

I follow you wherever you will go

So long as you approve and tell me so

I pray that you will not deprive my heart

I am more sensitive than I am smart

 

My infatuations never reached this far

Someday I kiss the sun and kiss the star

 

 

Sonnet  41

 

I burn the house to catch a single mouse

Or fire a cannon so that I will rouse

I cut the tree to harvest all its seeds

Where is the sanity in all these deeds?

It seems that I feel love and love is like

The urge of heart; compulsion in a spike

Pursue the interests with gravity

Not counting costs or its intensity

When love shall enter in; hostage begins

Sweet indiscrimination thinks no sins

Love is pursued up to the heart’s content

Devouring opposition and dissent

 

For love is passion and abhors control

I either love or never love at all

 

 

Sonnet  42

 

High voltage rising quickly enters me

In split of second, marvels now I see

Expansive energy and power surged

World’s oceans turns to one wave and me urged

To wash me to the universe’s edge

Into my mind, all thoughts I slowly dredge

Soar like a kite in howling ocean wind

Loosed by the string so endless to rescind

I fly and bump with stars, a crowded space

I loom and loom with doom; expansion’s  race

Become I universe, all its contents

Now hear sweet fears and my soul’s sweet laments

 

My mind is vast; myself and consciousness

Spaceless am I, and I am timelessness

 

 

Sonnet 43

 

I write this poetry and you have read

You are myself you are reborn from dead

For I exist now, as before and then

I surely lived different lives of men

You read this now and I write this for you

Who is myself before and now you know

I was once this who wrote; now you have read

Wake up and open your mind and your head!

Are you myself? Just be sure that you are

Recall billion years memory that far?

My consciousness as life is infinite

I, once was, am, will be; am definite

 

You are my consciousness and I confirm

Believe and be convinced therefore affirm

 

 

Sonnet 44

 

If you read this that means that you have lived

If I am dead, my mind in you retrieved

I see this world, there is no other place

Exist in timeless time and spaceless space

Uphold each moment that is in your hands

Adore the earth; its wondrous seas and lands

For next existence is another state

Unknown to you till my verses relate

Your state is now, the beauty you behold

With God we know who did create and mold

He is the source of everything that lives

From Him is the breath that each life receives

 

You are to live through immortality

Now that you know, keep this in memory

 

 

Sonnet 45

 

For at sweet madness that I spend with you

It is all love that I once ever knew

If love is foolishness to be at wrong

Then gladly I have rushed there to belong

And in belonging, I partake my share

To know that loving in a sense is fair

In loving you, you do not give your love

Love is not true love, when to love you strove

You better love me not than force to feel

Forced love is fake as it is never real

Real that you do not love me I accept

You only take love what you can incept

 

Love you; what else is more of love than you

My heart takes what is pleasing to my view

 

 

Sonnet 46

 

The Angel of the Lord declared to me

The Holy Spirit upon you now see!

Behold I am the handman of the Lord

Be done according fully to your word

Write as you can still write the words I give

Write as you breathe in this one life you live

Acrostic poetry inscribed in stone

Names to be lighted by light to be shown

Those who believe will thus see Truth and Light

To always light the stone throughout the night

Life is called by name, name needs to be bright

This is the Truth, and in Truth take delight

 

Words written are to be flesh and to dwell

Among us who read and believe right well

 

 

Sonnet 47

 

Why should I die before you pay my works?

Love by your palate after pierced by forks

What wasteful life; first beauty is interred

Before a rightful honor is conferred

Where is the honor of punctuality?

Or honor has lost that priced quality

When works due of rewards are sometimes gone

The victor is dead before prize is won

To celebrate late while honor delays

Arrives to cosmetize the embalmed face

And boasts for him; grants him eternal days

In truth he is decayed dead in grave lays

 

Like Shakespeare, becomes greatest after death

Is talent poor if I retain my breath?

 

 

Sonnet 48

 

I have no wealth; I only have my youth

And immaturity; that is the truth

Youth without wisdom is more poverty

No ownership in my own property

My headstrong mind is destined for today

Contentedly happy and simply play

The hours and years unnoticed to pass by

For the lost times, the eyes like rivers cry

My energy I can afford to waste

And make unwise decisions in a haste

I run if you want me to run; I jump

Adventure’s wanderlust makes my veins pump

 

Rouse me for me to realize my fate

Better cry before milk spills than cry late

 

 

Sonnet  49

 

I am a soldier and I have no wealth

My capital is energy and health

Enlist into the army without cause

And die in battle fighting with no loss

No! hold my weapons I to serve our land

I have no wit and wisdom to demand

My mind is simple and my dream is small

The country cries and I just heed the call

The fear of death is not even my fear

In life, death everywhere is always near

To lose one’s dignity at times is death

Die countless times without losing the breath

 

I am a soldier, die death truly one

But when I die, my dream is never gone

 

 

Sonnet 50

 

I pulled the trigger with my eyes unwinked

Death captured my foe as the bullet blinked

Far from the distance, I see children fall

One hit and one family gets the toll

Beside me is my bleeding soldier friend

Hit; his wound’s hopelessness nothing can mend

Blood seethes to extinguish his youth and light

Reminding that we fought an honored fight

For guns are weapons of the speechless mind

When heart is void and reasons hard to find

Caught in a livelihood but noble will

To fight the war, pure duty to fulfill

 

Blame not the soldiers for the blood to spill

The minds to educate so war to kill

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