Saturday, April 3, 2010

A Famous Battle

A Famous Battle

A famous battle was fought here,

Two kings whose name is legend

Fought a battle exactly at this place;

Millions of soldiers died right here on this spot,

Horses, Elephants, Camels…they died too.

It was just before the harvest season,

The weight of the paddy bent the stalks double

And when the soldiers marched on it

The paddy was crushed into the ground.

Luckily, nobody went hungry

Because they had already been killed

by both the armies.

This lake was red from the blood that flowed that day

When

A famous battle was fought here,

Those villages there, all of them were burnt down.

Why? Peace-keeping they were told.

Historians say this battle was decisive.

Both the Kings claimed that they had won.

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