Still Will

My fourth poem,and a different theme from other poems (which were about love or related to it).The theme of this poem is "inspiring a soldier in the battlefield".Hope you enjoy it. I dedicate this poem to my friend Sundar, from whom I stole this amazing title, "Still Will".

Falling souls and fallen ones,

     Tell me not thy reasons lame.

For glory carv’d on his pearls of black,

      Blameth’ him, and not his kind.

Weaker be thy broken sword,

     And harder be the slayer’s fort.

But weaker still is a trunker’s start,

     Pierces off the layer’s might.

Mates of home may view the sky,

     With stream of blood from gallant hearts.

Fuel off, thy raging beast,

      Lust, for ‘es cries of pain.

Fight, for thy duty’s rule;

     Fight ,for the future’s hope;

Fight for the word of love;

      And fight till thy weapons rot.

End of days with roars of pride,

     Victory crowns a liberal life.

Where honor holds the hands of love,

     Be slain’d in dust or linger free?

   1. For people who have lost in the battle or on the verge of losing, don’t give lame reasons for your failure. The ones with victory close to the eyes (pearls of black) blame themselves for their mistakes and not others. “Not his kind” refers to fellows in the battlefield.

 2. The sword you carry may be weak and broken, and the enemy’s fort may be harder. But these cannot hinder a determined man’s progress. A plant sapling breaks off the layer of earth when it comes out of the seed and then grows strong and tall (trunker). An example of the victory of persistence.

  3.The fellow warriors may lie down dead with blood from their gallant hearts. This should not impart fear to the other warriors, but rather should fuel the beast within them. Lust,(a strong desire) for the enemy’s cries of pain should grow within the other soldiers to revenge for their mates’ death.

 4.The soldier should remember his duty for the nation, the fate of the future generation (slaved on losing the battle), and for the love of the people in his country. And he should fight till his weapons rot (which is impossible and signifies that a warrior should never give up.)

   5.At last, when the battle is over and victory gives them liberty (rather than slavery), honor and love of the people are presented to the soldier. The last line asks the soldier whether he chooses to keep fighting to see victory or to give up and join the group of cowards who ran off and are considered as worthless dust by the country men.


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