Abhishek's Song

By Gaurav Parab

I pause as I slowly look around

So many things that I found

Feelings in things I couldn’t touch

What I thought of life, yet life is such

Staring at the barbed wire a few feet away

Three years ago, I sat by an European bay

Between future and past, in a missing present

I am live, so the money and plans simply went

I am alive, but I don’t know for how long

Yes my life marches to the tune of an Army song

My name is Abhishek, you may not have heard of me

I am the caged spirit in everything free

I went to the same school like you my dear

Yes I was as carefree, yet I had a big fear

The fear was living as something meant to be done

Visions between being the shadow or being the Sun

I caught the bus to a well paid job just like you

Passion was something which I thought just grew

But there was no feeling in what I did

It was me who the brilliant shadows brilliantly hid

So, I broke out and left London behind

It was me who I hoped to find

Met a uniform who handed me a form

I soon found myself in a dorm

A dorm of all the places, life is such

Living between obstacle courses, and death you touch

I drift along fighting for someone’s peace

I march proud, even with bleeding knees

My name is Abhishek, and I had a dream

It was not much, to some it may seem

I wanted to be a soldier ever since I was a child

But life’s predictability runs a little wild

So I turned out to be another well ironed coat

It was numbers that I earned and wrote

Till a fading spark suddenly turned to fire

And I found myself staring at a barbed wire