UNDYING HOPE

UNDYING HOPE

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The grandeur  visible to the naked eyes

solidified through the very essence

Kashmiriat  yet had cracks appearing from nowhere

Shedding its leaves it had owned since eras together

Silky dawn was never the same

Nor the murmur of small steam below

The sound of yakho- yekh and hako-haak

Still resounding like a sonic boom

Kandur, navid, and barbuz vaan , the meeting rooms

Silence greeting with garlands of doom

Someone crooned.

"Kashmirat can’t be dead ?  Long live Kashmiriat !"

Hope sustains life and mankind survives

Pillars strong enough to withstand onslaughts

Religious ethos and social tenets interweaving the brotherhood

Let it smile through tolerance once again, it should

I see then, trout jumping out with sheer joy

Chinars  whistling welcoming  change in the wind

Shikaaras dancing to the tune of the Divine

Birds soaring high scaling unimaginable

Auspicious peaks holding up the avalanches

Sufi singing touching the hearts

Kashmiriat has to be born again the world over.

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 yakho- yekh :- raw ice  Hako-haak :- green leafy vegitable
Kandur, navid, and barbuz vaan:- bakery, barber and baked channa/peas shop