Comrade
Comrade


"My comrade! Your eyes!"
Blood oozing from your abdomen
like inkblots from a rough wordsmith,
snaking towards the scrubs
of wearing wicked weaponry
held seductively by more
the chants and infantry
of patriotism than the vermillion
fingers crossed in a bombarding
stance of sedated stroke,
Lo! suddenly your glance
reflecting the saffron
of the setting sphere suffusing
in my heart, with alas!
winter's wretching white eyes,
and limbs losing the lethal grip,
ceasing to move, falling in
the battlefield of green,
disrupting the commotion
of 24 soldiers' cavalcade,
wheeling the procession
of navy-blue nightshade,
made me shout -
"My comrade! Rise!
This is no place to sleep,
Take cover!
Allow me to pick you up
for safer shelter.
You're not suitable for martyrdom"
A faint crooked painting
on your mouth
was the reply, causing
my nerves' immediate heightening,
for your eyes then silent, resembling
a quiet unleash
of freedom for freedom by freedom,
was all the proof
I needed of peace.