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A Warrior's Feelings

Mushtasfi Mustakim

I have had to go through pains and sorrows. 
Had to suffer hellish punishment.  
I have burned to ashes in the flames of torment- in and out. 
Have fallen like a dying creature a number of times. 

But I have risen from those very ashes, 
Just like a phoenix 
Whose heart was a fire-pit 
And eyes the colour of flames. 

I have won many a battle. 
Have broken innumerable forts like a house of cards. 
I have fought with myself alone. 
I suddenly heard an unfamiliar and unknown sound one day. 

After hearing that sound, 
A strange feeling arose in my mind 
Which started to bubble like the steaming hot lava of a volcano 
And fell down like a rain of flames. 

In search of the origin of that unknown sound, 
I surprisingly realized that 
It was coming from nowhere but my heart. 

The writer is a student of class X at Bangladesh International School And College