Command Line

I was a soldier posted on Borderlands
I saw my duty to lay down my life
I saw much more than that
The beauty of the border lines between two civilizations, meeting in wilderness,
Meetings of death and life-
Borderlands...

Borderline beauties of the mind
As A soldier trained to obey
To set sights on targets
And see within my range
I didnt look up or down
But  I kept my eyes fixed and focused on the great bull's eye.

My bullet missed the target each time I tried to out snipe the snipers out there
Keep my cross hair vision  tidied and clean
The click of my safety catch
The trigger was all I heard
And the explosive bang of my bullet on target.

Forgive me that I  saw so much beauty
forgive me my immortal soul
I let it all pass by;
Like a heat seeking guided missile,
I silent  sought my prey,
And let life go by.

Till a stray bullet took its silver toll
And craggy shoulder spouted a bloody hole
And blue sky poured into my
Writhing wound
Warmer welcome I never found

Life rushed in as life rushed out
Mad birds sped accross skies of doubts
Chirrups thundered echoes accross dying corridors
Of shutting down brain
Eyes saw flowering crystal flakes.

I could have written your beauty too
Life this much I had owed to you
But the commanding officer in my mind
Told me to all else, must remain I Blind.

Silent deadly silver speed
My heart a bullet its lead must plead
Against the chosen heart held dear
Trigger happy ejected fears.

No love no life in a sniper wound
What border lines can you hide and defend?
The  territory you seek to keep free
Is  unfamiliar and unknown  to
Me.

I call it my soul
The soldier may call it land
We're all patriots
With borders to defend
And that which you guard so dear
From friend or foe
Makes it a dead end of bloody woe.

Open the rose
The roads within...to
Fear the bullet the cardinal sin
Walls of watchfulness can never see
You exist deep in the heart of me.

The soldier with his heart of  gold
Defended the land on which he stood
Took the bullet for which his life he sold
And the life he lost he never understood

Why then is it all to the good...
Count cost of mounting the hallowed rood
The lovely roads we tread to love
Some fall below others tread above

Don't forget to live the life you have
The deadlines and duties ordered
Weren't the ones that you're given in the streams of your holy blood.

Love the target that "you have set"
To  shoot it is to target life not death.

I am a soldier of life I choose to live
On Borderlands of visions
I  must pledge belief...

Command line of brain
Clear the mess within
Channel the energies of Love
To  Live
And hate can  never win.

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(c) Amrita Valan 2014