The Poem: Kashmir

One place the people are struggling to pass a day without fear, Other side the people are shifting happy gears.

We are the integral part of the same nation, aren't we? When last did I cry.

( Sonam Gupta )

The sound of their bullets comes across the lake, bouncing off the mountains.

Only at times in the evenings, when the birds go silent, I can cry quitely: when last did I cry.

( Ishfaq )

Even the leaves of the Chinar are colored in blood,

Oppressed hamlet turns blind in Autumn, the leaves turn red slowly: when last did I cry.

( Chinar e Kashmir )

One hand pulls the trigger, the other shoots the bullet.

With that last breath I wonder, Is that a smile that I see: when last did I cry.

( Afaan Bilal )

Every day, from dawn till dusk, in this war of fate the mothers prays

That their children are safe, from the clutches of this fury: when last did I cry.

( Hashim Bashir )

"My thirst stays unquenched", says the martyr's mother.

"I drink from my tears now. I made a saline sea, when last did I cry."

( Azhar Wani )

And my heaven, my Kashmir is bleeding now, its the new hell of this world.

I don't remember now when last I could see: when last did I cry.

( Aamer Bashir )

To, the world we ask, If they have lost their values, their logic.

Jhelum is flowing with red waters, where is humanity: when last did I cry.

( Aamer Bashir )

In the graves of nothingness, memories are buried. Each having its own story,

Some untold, Some unwritten, hidden such that none can see: when last did I cry

( Hashim Bashir )

Against a ruthless enemy's killing spree, I mourn every martyr who died.

Yet the battle we did not flee, when last did I cry.

( Ayman Parray )