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Strange Threads

Updated: Oct 17, 2022

By Akhilesh Nawale


There's stitches in my arms,

Its all turning red

"Retreat !"; both sides hit the alarm,

Its turning calm and dead.


It looks I'm all alone,

Someone's showing his bone

Wait, he looks just fine,

As I'm grabbing my carbine.





There's faith in his heart,

But he got no flames

Took out stuff from his little cart,

Shit, I'm forgetting God's names.


Checked twice I've got no cart,

The neck threads falling apart

Ah, I lost too much blood,

Got a carbine and no bullets' flood.


Last time to be a man,

Sticking the muzzle to my brain

Reminding myself-I can,

Oh, God's crying; its rain!


Am I passing out? Wait, its no rain

Oh No! The Bloke's gone insane

The hell, he's sprinkling that hypochlorite,

I am not stopping him, I'm a hypocrite.


The eyes are clear,

And I'm not dead

The threads all white,

Nowhere red.


Chills running through my veins,

He's sitting by my hand

Even to smile it pains,

We headed back to our “own” land.


By Akhilesh Nawale




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