The Poem: Kashmir

O Kashmir! you unfortunate paradise Yet again you are burning,

but not to their surprise. We pray for you daily: when last did I cry.

( Tanvir Maqbool )

They may devise their evil plots,but little do they know

everything they do, will forever be imprecise.All folly: when last did I cry.

( Tanvir Maqbool )

How will they conquer our wails, our stones, our sacrifice.

Not with their propaganda or force, no matter how big their army: when last did I cry.

( Tanvir Maqbool )

You snatched my freedom and gave me pain.

Did you ever feel to ask me,dear democracy, "When last did I cry?"

( David Akram )

O Mother, wail not at the farewell of thy beloved son.

We shall meet again on the promised day, the day full of glee, when last did I cry.

( Imran Bashir )

My world is robbed of joy, for cries and pain has filled the space.

The other world is ignorant to this agony: when last did I cry.

( Nida shah )

Helpless and caged, I am so broken.

Shattered,I find my own dreams questioning me: when last did I cry?

( Nida shah )

If only my oppressor knew: all oppression is in vain,

Darkest hour is just before the dawn, much against his fallacy: when last did I cry?

( Muhammad Daniyal )

Some of us never die, the ones who die for their country.

Don't sob, don't cry. The smile on his face is sheer ecstasy: When last did I cry?

( Nazish Nazir )

Amidst the coalition of shrilled cacophony and cataclysm,

caged there I am; The world watches carefree: when last did I cry.

( Bisma Hilal )