Setting my heartbeat into rewind.
With a heart heavy, my eyes spits
Rancid emotions, my teeth I grind.
Though my heartbeat constantly skips
I must be of the bravest kind.
My strength keeps draining in giant leaps
Never enough for my resolve to slide.
Forging honour with courage’s pills
Inherent in capsules of befitting pride.
Character toughening with deadly drills
Embracing all with an asphyxiating mind.
Endurance scrambling off to failure’s hills
Banking on the assurance of a crippled blind.
Militarizing achingly in putty’s thrills
The kingdom of brave men I must find.
Body going convulsive with painful chills
Endurance sliding in an upward glide.
Fear fading with new tougher drills
I must be of the bravest kind.
I’ll stand and train and by no means
Return to the world with civilian blood
Written by: Alozor Michael Ikechukwu
Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson
