The Poem: Kashmir

I could hear mountains echoing "Azadi", Chinar shedding its leaves to sound of a gunshot.

helum had turned into crimson, this summer is different I wailed ,answer me, "When last did I cry?"

( Andleeb Nasrullah Mir )

See the light of the day in the desolations and tenebrosity my son.

To bring back light of freedom to the roads of blood. Stay forever, stay permanently: when last did I cry

( Hashim Bashir )

Break free all the chains and reside in peace; bring back the beackon of hope

to this land that lost, all its hope and those mornings of prosperity: when last did I cry.

( Hashim Bashir )

Tell my nation about my death and don't hide it or conceal.

Don't color truth with lies, tell them with all honesty: when last did I cry.

( Azhar Imtiyaz )

Every knock at the door fills my heart with hope, I wish its you.

On these curfewed roads I have stopped living a life of a lie, it has been lonely: when last did I cry.

( Mohammad Hashim )

The curtain of night falls, the sound of bullets roar, someone is wailing some lanes away.

To whom do I speak, to whom do I say: I speak to myself as I listen to me: when last did I cry.

( Hashuz )

here schools are turned into garrisons, mothers mourn the killings of their sons

Culprits hide under the shade of gun, a nation caged and world abandons, world too blind to see: When last did I cry.

( Sajjad Sofi )

I have no tears left, no eyes to see, no heart to feel, no courage to ask, Why?

I trembled as I cried, unfolding was the reign of tyranny: when last did I cry.

( Afaan Bilal )

Even if it has been a state of war for so long,

I find peace in this tempest, it makes me feely homely: when last did I cry.

( Khanday )

Blinded eyes, spilled blood, countless graves, dreams lost and lives shattered.

The only thing we have now, is the hope and the desire to be free: when last did I cry.

( Arshid Mushtaq )