{"id":1411,"date":"2026-02-05T14:37:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:37:49","slug":"a-soldiers-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takhte.in\/VoiceofViews\/a-soldiers-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"A Soldier\u2019s Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bhavyat Singla
BTech Student
Northcap University,
Gurugram<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A soldier stands alone upon the stone,
Upon a castle terrace, night is his only throne.
The world lies sleeping at his weary feet.
While silence hums a slow, exhausted beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He lifts his eyes to stars that shatter and scatter.
As if they know his fears, each unspoken matter.
Unspoken questions linger in his chest.
One he never learnt to name or test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Something unseen tugs softly at his heart,
A thread of fate, too thin to break apart.
It whispers through the dark, a fragile plea:
Maybe\u2026 just maybe\u2026 things will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He holds his doubts the way scars hold the skin.
Proof of where he\u2019s been, not where he\u2019s been forgiven.
He believes in God, in meaning barely revealed,
In love that asks to be completely yielded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wonders what it means to be adored
The way he loves is unmeasured, unignored.
How peaceful life could be, a gentler view.
A dream unjudged, untouched by what we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Far from the scales that society employs,
From poisoned hate and sorrow\u2019s endless noise,
A place the world has never taught to harden,
Where gentleness survives without a pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fog grows thin; the darkness learns to yield.
The moon arrives, both aching and revealed.
Its silver light falls tender, wide, and slow,
On every soul that doesn\u2019t yet know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It watches eyes still searching through the night,
Every life that hasn\u2019t found its light.
And for a moment, beneath that quiet gleam,
Hope turns from kindness and leans towards the dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that the world forgives or bends,
But hope can hold us till the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Courtesy Unsplash – Thank you\u00a0Stijn Swinnen<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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