KASHMIR : a fire within

Kashmir: a fire within

Kashmir of our dreams

remains only a dream

subconscious playing games

it seems,

like a jigsaw puzzle

with no real solution in sight

feeling like a wandering kite

some materialize in reality

some not

our Kashmir dream has not

that is a pity.

Politics overriding our feelings

our leaders

wavering & dithering in dealings

none to blame but ourselves

we lost our own bearings.

Fanaticizing, not our cup of tea

route to violence abhorred

sacrificial lineage

never inherited such stuff

road to our dream seems always rough

walking through the serpentine roads

talks, discussions, elocutions of no use

ship drifting on slipped moorings

predicament continues.

When we lose

we lose

winner takes it all

but they won’t take our consciousness

supreme and tall.

Let saviour

be our language

guiding force be our cultural heritage

and

the legacy of our ancestral knowledge.

Under the trail of

those mutilated bodies and seething anger

keeping alive that spark in ashes

rise we shall like phoenix

for those at helm

to shudder.

Let us build  Kashmir of our dreams

wherever we are

whenever we can

we lost one

let us create ten.

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