A Soldier's Account of Battle

A POEM BY ME ON THE PLIGHT OF A SOLDIER(PROBABLY CONSCRIPTED) IN BATTLE. ENJOY!

A Soldier's Account of Battle

-Balaji S

From overhead, above all the chaos surrounding me,

With sorrow,destruction and carnage galore,

Comes a formidably loud roar.

Looking up, I see a magnificently armed MiG-29,

Leaving in her wake a smoke trail fine.

As I look at the ground, over yonder,

What I see gives me something to ponder;

It is the massive sillouette of a T-90 tank,

Its guns as lethal as any Basilisk's fang.

As it lumbers past me, all I hear is its battle-cry.

Standing there, I was lost in my thoughts,

Oblivious to the fact that my Commander had approached me.

I gave him a stiff salute when I divined that it was my attention he sought.

"Go, man the machine guns", the order came.

I trudged along the dirt ground, wondering if I was still sane.

"War", I thought, "Where is thine chivalry?",

"Why art thou pulling innocents into thine web?"

Until I get the answers, I can but wait for the Conflict to ebb,

Away, Away, Away...

Better than last time right?

bala

The Inheritance Cycle: A Comprehensive Study

The Inheritance Cycle, for those of you who do not know, is a set of 4 books, set in an ancient world called Alagaesia, written by the young literary genius, Christopher Paolini. The books, of which 3 are released, are called Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr. A bit of a tongue-twister, really, but once you have mastered the names, you can move on to the content in the books. It's about this young boy of about 16, who, suddenly, ends up finding a dragon egg in a forest near his farming village and then finds himself, in a flash, running away from home with a local story-teller on dragonback. His family is destroyed, with the exception of his cousin, and he is on the run. He then decides that he must avenge his family's death, and so he wants to seek their murderers out and, you know, do the normal stuff that a hero does to a pair of non-human villains vastly more powerful than him.

 

In the ensuing battle, the boy loses the storyteller, his companion on his mission, to the forces of the Afterlife. So he continues on his journey, pretty much like what an aircraft does when the pilots decide to take a nap with autopilot on in the middle of a journey, to a rebel organisation.

There he is caught in an ensuing political imbroglio over him. And with suddenness so typical of Paolini, an enemy army crashes in out of nowhere, complete with giant barbarian beasts, sorcerers and even a magical abomination. This thing then fights the boy and gives him a cut in the back, before being finished off.

That's the end of Eragon, so now on to Eldest.

Name sounds okay? Think the book's gonna be alright? That's where you're wrong, my little chickadee...the book is nothing short of Horrible!

In fact, it's so horrible that I'm just not going to tell you how horrible it was!

You see, it spares you the misfortune of reading it and it spares me the misfortune of typing it all out!!!

Goodbye people!

P.S.- I hope I can get something better for you net time...

bala