We yelled and staggered on We stumbled and many fell Detained in the perplexity No respite as danger pursued The ordeal ensued when In the midst of clout struggle The insurgents took up weaponry Determined to surmount a dictator That morning bewilderment originated Helter-skelter we escaped for safety Sad enough bullets out ran some Especially as cross fires existed We saw our Kinsmen reach for the ground As though caught only with fatigue But bullets indeed penetrated some They lay motionless as we lurched on Struggling to God knows where, We knew not our course No worst thing existed for us Like the cross fires we were trapped in. One by one we began to die that day Randomly death swallowed us up, While power mongers persisted Fired projectiles missed targets for us. We ran frantically in seek for safety Recognizing us as restless victims, The insurgents mercilessly began to Extinct us with great delight ‘No one is surviving the assault What do I do?’ I pondered hastily ‘Shall we all face our demise this way? No, I’ll live’ I determined Kinsmen had long fallen to rise no more This fact gave me impetus to survive To live and tell the story of the cross fires History of the fallen most be told to posterity Inspiration came to me at once I unyieldingly fell down as one lifeless Spilled, oozing blood entwined me The killers shoot till no one stood Everyone lay motionless in a stack I lived however not too sure yet The cross fires persisted for long That at one point I envied my kinsmen Finally, calm was reluctantly returning The government militia advanced The insurgents had not a choice But to retreat in dread of superior artillery We had unfortunately advanced towards The insurgents that we became the target Of the artillery that was meant to shield us Blames on the wrong tactics by the militia Abounded as calm was retained in days But I had a story to tell of the cross fires.