WAR

Scarier than a Lion's roar

Life... maybe a brawl, maybe a war

Everyday and every night

not a warrior, but I fight

I fight to live, I live to fight

Like a gallant knight

Relentlessly for more than four dozen fortnights

Do you rely on what you see?... I'm not selling a rumour

you probably doubt me because you don't see me in a bright shiny amour

Then again you conceive heavy doubt

Just because you don't see me flinging punches in a bout

In case you wonder... I'm not a ruthless Pugilist

Neither a wrestler, nor a martial  specialist

I do not wield a sword, Nor a shield

Never seen.. Never been in a scene of battlefield

But in my mind I've faced the fiercest battles

Beneath those cognitive crevices, my arch enemy rattles

There's a war front at the hind of this mind

Life, No trifles for rifles in this kind of grind

I face what I don't see but that which I can perceive

Barricades of self doubts... No cease fire, No relief

Battalions commanded by disbelief

Legions of voices that attack my fears, worries and grief




Life is war

Though we don't always see wounds and gore galore

Birthed into this pride

born into this wild

Can I adapt? Is survival on my side?

Good lord, good God, this mind is a ring

Where I wrestle myself within

And quarrel with my thoughts, more or less... I guess

It's stress, Cos Sometimes I need to say no when my soul says yes

And rebel against all the lies

And tell myself if it isn't worth it, don't ever sacrifice nor compromise Never rationalize

It doesn't always mean peace when there's silence

The roughest violence resides in the brain, where the ambience is silence

We do not see, but Hearts are arenas

Where we bob and weave against nibbling temptations like piranhas

How do you build defences without fortifying offences

We all wage war against insecurities

Who wouldn't slay poverty?

No wonder we sometimes fight change

And Time and freedom within our range

Sometimes We lose, sometimes we win

Sometimes We are heroes, sometimes fallen soldiers to the villain

I can't say I like this daily rampage

But I can say I like this lifetime challenge

True strength is mental

A strong mind is instrumental