The Poet With a Gun
The Poet with a Gun
The dualism of a nobler past. A general, soothing the violent reminiscence of his trade with a gentle pastoral of natural existence. A strophe of calm, louder than grenades.
We remember soldiers by heroic battles, we measure their merit in square miles of soil spanning under our flags. He measured his by the modest yet sincere verses he coined, by the villagers he took care of and the oblivion he temporarily touched.