The Poem: Kashmir

Wounded Pigeons, Nightangles at stake; spring has got none to praise.

The blood red roses and blue lavender, all molested to dirt mucky: when last did I cry.

( Zaid Zaz )

Distressed sobs I hear, in the dark lane, I see the common man, suffer in pain.

Abused and assaulted, He cries in a corner, thinking eerie: when last did I cry.

( Ishfaq Khaliq )

Smoke from the canister chokes my eyes.

Yet I have defiance in my hand and inside of me,when last did I cry.

( Adnan )

Tomorrow sun shall rise again, with radiance of our resistance.

For that tomorrow I fight today, fight them till I am free: when last did I cry.

( Ambar )

Before the dusk takes over, and the dale turns red, I look for a shelter, in the arms of my mother.

And when I look in her eyes ,black corals of dark sea: when last did I cry.

( Sidra Nazir )

Blood grouts the 'holes' in my eyes.

Unable to see; When last did I cry !!!

( Omar Rafique )

I smeared blood over window pane to make it a mirror.

The mirror was complete but the eyes couldn't see:when last did I cry.

( Abhen Bhatt )

Pelleted bag of bones, giving way to the cadaver; Impelled breaths, breathing for the breathless.

Alarming slogans, peppered streets. The rose departed for her roseate eyes never to see: when last did I cry.

( Shah Sabia )

When dreams are shattered and pellets rain, the darkness seizes innocent lives.

When the barbarians are medalled as saviours, justice turns blurry: when did I last cry?

( Shaikh Owais )

Why you fear my separation so much, O land of Iqbal's dream.

Under the shadow of a bloodied moon, you could have asked me: when last did I cry?

( Talha )