ANIMATE

 

ANIMATE

 

Socking the gruesome sight crowded,

Billowing dark fumes, tongues of fire,

Burning the high-rise building houses,

Loud cries of people at height waving,

The specter pleading for help saving a life,

Who are you uniformed men daring,

Fighting sparing own life rises on a ladder,

Pour water jet through windows, balconies,

Enters into smoking windows daredevil,

High apartment lives choked unconscious,

No way to come down life closed,

Staircases engulfed by fire confined,

Clueless trying to jump to death,

The wrong choice to save life fail decision,

Just this moments enter these men,

Lifts limbs drained out of energy,

Through rope ladder platform rescue,

Hours of these horrible scene fight,

Continues till the deathly inferno off,

Extinguished the fire, charred lives,

Devastated families, horrible death occur,

A life that matters a few seconds save,

The blackened faces burning eyes search,

Recover senseless, dying children, babies,

Spine chilling actions wordless achieve,

The saga of firefighters amid ruins,

Crawl among amber, intense heat,

The action final, end operations, back,

A big megapolis explosions miles away,

Fire and black smoke touches the sky,

Destroyed adjacent buildings, traffic,

Cordon off the entire crowd, danger zone,

Bystander observes people agitated,

Burning people within the fuel station,

Shouting excited pushing the rope,

Blocked by these death-defying men,

Cool, and calm, highly trained,

Managing irate crowd make way,

Let the vehicles firefighter move in,

Fire extinguishers spray chemicals,

A more dangerous place may explode,

Trembles me they walk through smolder,

Fight the operation nerve-wracking,

The toxic fume, heat, live working,

A few days the hell fire put-off now,

Leaves devastation, destruction,

A few lives were lost, wounded rescued,

Savior of human life unlisted,

News, how many survived, property saved,

These brave men disappear like a ghost,

Look at them have worried families,

Purposefully children kept out of father,

It happens such savior succumbs,

Wait, family desperate heard the news,

Sacrificed the life, not at war field,

But saving own people in dire threat,

No way means the job, skill, and courage,

Tearful inks saluting immortal spirits,

Walking on a road footpath traffic jam,

Listen to blaring sirens speeding cars,

Divided the road to the side, opens fast,

Blocked green signals to halt let fire-men,

The men in helmet stand ringing the bell,

The eyes of people viewing them,

Standstill on a footpath, drivers notice,

I found these faces animate unique,

Rarely I saw these hopeful eyes sparkle,

Praying for their spirit salute bravery,

Animate the air fast and quick happen,

Lingers deep gratitude a fire has shaken

 

Pen: Bijayananda Mishra

Title of Poem: Animate

Themes: Firefighters an enigma

Date: 19th January 2023, Cuttack

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