Kashmir

To, the one in the mirror-a look alike of me, when last did I cry?
My prayer unlike Moses, won’t make it across the sea: when last did I cry.

— Shahid

When river took the shore and the houseboats stopped floating.
Who answered when He asked, His throne it must be, “When last did I cry?”

— Ubaid Darwaish

Those footprints only leave, never to be returned, so fresh in the snow.
What address for my love? Unnamed stone under some tree, when last did I cry.

— Abdul Wajid

And beneath the unnamed tree the nightingales sing , a reminder to all
There lies our beloved , wish it was not you , wish it was me ! When last did I cry.

— Owais Qureshi

When you go back, tell them you went to heaven, and turned it into hell.
And all that you left back there, were cries of a mother and a child who couldn’t see: when last did I cry.

— Javid Parsa

In the shade of a Chinar: laughing, crying, breathing, moving on - everyday I must try:
What color will I paint my canvas, When they will set me free, when last did I cry

— Syed Mujtaba Rizvi

Play with Fire and be burned. Can we gain what is yearned?
Hidden secrets in our cellar & buried in mindless lies, are we! When last did I cry.

— Nishu

When innocents get killed, and murderers are set free, in a nation with receding humanity.
The moral imperative dictates: humanizing sedition was never so dear to me, when last did I cry?

— Dibyesh Anand

The wretched of the earth, bare-bones and blood, trickling down sweat from the frail forehead
What forgiveness after such knowledge? bombed out of a dream are we, When last did I cry?

— Inshah Malik

The passage of my tears stands blocked by a barricade of pellets.
Why did I wipe them off my cheeks, I should have let them be, when last did I cry?

— Umair Gul

From seeing our dear ones, but only in memories,
to seeing, but only in memories, and to finally be free: when last did I cry ?

— Prabu Venkat

Is there peace in the grave ? Is there peace in being a slave ? I seek some peace before I die
My dear don't speak for they can't hear , the darkness that I feared is what I see , when last did I cry .

— Haze Kay

O people of valley, who wash the blood from the alley.
We pray for your best, a life without a fee, when last did I cry.

— Saqeeb Mallick

The wails of those who mourn, reverberating in my soul.
Who knows what is life,none in this country: when last did I cry.

— Khan Ansur

Once a heaven , so full of charm - a pinnacle of beauty.
With eyes - deprived of light ,full of pellets , I try too hard to see: When last did I cry ?

— Syed Zumair Nadim

I need no shelf to show, the world does already know.
Silver pellets in the innocent face, handed to awardee, when last did I cry.

— Sahil

Let us all unite and make heaven free.
For you , for them and for me: when last did I cry.

— Umaid

Pellets in the eye, my eyes are dry, yet I'm alive. Am I thankful to breathe?
Partially blinded; Now with a blurry vision, for reminisce I frisk my memory: when last did I cry?

— Aamir

Blood in rains while my brother lays on the ground where he survived.
Some say they pity them, but they're all lies to me, when last did I cry

— Aamir V

Wrapped my friend in a shroud, buried him in the same play ground, where once we played.
My blind eyes now have no desire to see.God, you can keep my light but give my tears back to me: when last did I cry.

— Aamir Wani

There are stars lodged in a child's body, the night is a wound that festers
memory is a teargassed witness the day will not set free: when last did I cry?

— Shivangi Sharma

Fetching life from the air full of smoke , Under the broken shade of tyrant sun.
I will remember all of you, no matter how many. When last did I cry.

— Syed Zumair Nadim

Deep inside our hearts, we remember the sacrifice.
We shall never forget, those lives were not for free:when last did I cry?

— Mir Aubid

Deafening sounds and anguished eyes. A frail crumble of dust, with gunfire in the skies:another child dies, I can't see.
With the last bewildered parting kiss, his grave flooded by light shall be. When last did I cry?

— Sibghat

The bodies painted in red and the eyes filled with steel: How does that make you feel ?
When they look in the mirror, do they feel guilty ? When last did I cry.

— Tanzeel

Resist, send fire, to the ends of the empire, you wont but we will be, I testify.
We exist, we live, neither forget nor forgive. This nation shall be free: when last did I cry.

— Qazi Zaid

While I sang the songs of light, they pushed me into dark.
Is sky still blue in color? Tell me for they blinded me,when last did I cry?

— Maroof Tasleem

We're supressed to keep quiet, depressed not to fight, We'll yet describe our pain, fight for our rights.
We will rise through oppression, divine even if it be: when last did I cry.

— Mantazir Lone

Sitting under the red Chinar I look at her. Jhelum carrying the ashes of my long gone brothers,
I have no memory of my mother's paradise, for burned gardens was all I got to see. When last did I cry!

— Nawal

She looks at the face, smeared in the blood. Mother whispers to herself:
"Insha how will you wipe my tears, if you cannot see": when last did I cry?

— Umer farooq

The mirrors hushed my image tonight.
and concealed the memory - when last did I cry.

— Omar Rafique

We as humans have failed humanity by cruelty and barbarity.
Now its time to take refuge in Almighty: When last did I cry.

— Ovais Ahmad

Her eyes contained no more tears. For she had cried enough all these years.
Her son, she sacrificed for my land. Thus, a dawn of freedom will soon witness we. When last did I cry..

— Zabirah Fazili

Unlike me, the women wailed as his bullet ridden body arrived. I stood there looking at my groom,
and sensed contentment on his face as he had already found his bride in Azaadi. When last did i cry?

— Sauliha Yaseen

Outside in the garden, the golden crested hoopoe sings songs of freedom
From those long buried, it learnt the rhyme of Azadi, when last did I cry?

— Mahum Shabir

Pierced by metal, but these eyes are forever.
They created the sea, when last did I cry.

— Omar Rafique

Sky witnesses the bloodbath, stars twinkle not.
I look at endless graves as a bottomless sea : when last did I cry.

— Sidra Nazir

Tired of slavery, they all came out; demanding their freedom , exampling bravery.
One by one, Oppressors killed them all, in the name of peace. What they left was no saintly: when last did I cry.

— Haseeb

My Land is crying and the rivers are red. Even Fuhrer will cry on this bloodshed.
Mourning from time immemorial , tears I have exhausted. And you ask me: when last did I cry.

— Suhail Lolu

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

Counting tomb stones on stars now. Was not it yesterday,
when we had so few of them. My heart's reply eerie. When last did I cry?

— Nusrat

The blood stains on the wall make him now an insomniac.
The whole blinded family now looks for light but all there eyes squinty, when last did I cry?

— Sarvish Malik

Amid the snow capped mountains lies my soul, wearied and captivated.
Incinerating my place, together, they smirk and chortle at me! When last did I cry ?

— Ambar

In the tourney of tyranny, my eyes went dry.
A paradise lost to be a caged colony: When last did I cry.

— Dawood

From the land where the truth is buried everyday, voices for justice are labelled as hate.
Bloodied and maimed is what you inflamed; ask me no more about this anomaly: when last did I cry

— Ahmer Javed

Press asked why the bruise, I am torn.
She replied, love is my curse, I am torn- and torn are we, When last did I cry?

— Zahida Ishaq War

He calls for my killing he then condemns it; "hai hai!"
Butchered by the ones I do, and the ones I don't see; when last did I cry.

— Atif Ali

How do I write the story of my life, where do I find the words ?
The story of my pain, which I can't read to thee:when last did I cry.

— Maroof Tasleem

Chinars no longer shade the Sufis; minarets no longer call to God.
Children of paradise can no longer see,the oppressed praying for oppressor to flee : When last did I cry ?

— Akif Mufti

These words, like shackles of my breath, are waiting to be seen
The prayer that brought me to my knee: when last did I cry.

— Shrija R

“I will miss your eyes”, she said, when last we met.
I mentioned the crimson sunset by the sea. When last did I cry.

— Omar Rafique

Empty sockets, frozen dreams. Oppression its name, Darkness its theme.
Prison: where no bird is free. Remind me: when last did I cry.

— Amreen Naqash

In the darkened vale, by the crimsoned lake, under stones, bullets, pellets and an eye for an eye.
In an undead state, another soulless ghoul, withered, blind and gory, when last did I cry.

— Sarita

Bring the smile back on her face, O please bring back the grace.
Envision the pain if it was you,for I can't even fathom if it was me, when last did I cry.

— Asim Gulzar

Gods bear witness and time stands still.
Jehlum shivers in despair as chinar cries in agony:when last did I cry.

— Maroof Mir

Hollow men masqueraded with honed ordinance.
They pierce the eyes; so did she. When last did I cry.

— Omar Rafique

Neither I was there nor I was aware. Compassionate human I am to feel the pain.
Look into pacifism deeply and let the innocent people be free: When last did i cry?

— Pavi

The more you suppress me , the more I will rise.
They blinded my eyes ,but who could snatch from me- my dreams, my destiny? When last did I cry.

— Bisma Hassan

Heart wrenching lullabies are instrumented, with the sound of bullets and screams.
And our haunting nightmares are half colored with blood in our blinded eyes, like corals of red sea:when last did I cry

— Neeraj Nawaz

In the mirror, my reflection beckoned me to embrace him.
I sang to him a dirge for home, he said looking at me, 'When last did I cry?'

— Qadri Inzamam

Was it the tales of torture that I heard, Or the rapes committed in the name of democracy?
The orphans made,the childhood that was lost, Could you not see: When last did I cry ?

— Muhammad Tabish Parray

The children now can no longer play, and you ask, "How can it be?"
O yes its them who cut us slay, and took forever our beauty: when last did I cry?

— Asim Gulzar

Though, the eyes are lost, the heart is undefeated.
Hand over a stone to me. When last did I cry.

— Omar Rafique

Injustice is a wave flooding up our streets like rain.
It's the time to bring some change, don't cry if you die; nothing comes easy. When last did I cry?

— Nasir

On macadamised blackboards, the children of my vale write.
Is it that hard to read, such a clear graffiti:When last did I cry.

— Insha Kanue

Those who fear to fight and to rebel against the might.
They will never know, how it feels to be free. When last did I cry.

— Beenish Syed

And as the wind changes, so does our sail.
Floods, pellets, elections-anything it can be.When last did I cry?

— Aamir Farooq

O, my children of the paradise, you shall forever remain alive in the silent echoes of my prayer.
From my blinded eyes to my martyred soul, the awaited fruit of our outcry will forever be, When last did I cry?

— Sufiya Tazeen

In the corner of a hospital room I see a father cry, I see life leaving through eyes.
I sit by a mother who takes my hand, and cries silently: When last did I cry?

— Rabiya Rasheed

Our paradise on earth, we can only pray- Our blinded eyes and broken limbs,
So patiently wait for the promised day, as per God's decree: when last did I cry.

— Shakira Rashid

Leaving no stone unturned, I search, seeking in vain, a bit of a long lost ally.
A token, a sign, of my dearest, the pristine beauty - when last did I cry.

— Sarita

Its raining pellets in God's paradise, where no longer buds bloom.
The sky is red and full of gloom, no answer to our plea: when last did I cry.

— Sabreen Parray

The desiccated chinar leaves covered with shroud;when the grizzled tree asks why?
This imbroglio shatters me, when last did I cry.

— Sheikh Davood

Young dreams buried so soon, leaving behind the souls soaked with tears.
Heart rending it is, how can't it affect thee: when last did I cry.

— Samreen

Her eyes were like stone and her face ice cold.She asks for how long will this continue? Wading through
the bloodied streets, walking by roaring streams,looking in the endless sky,she waits patiently: when last did I cry.

— Nuzhat Rashid

O my brothers, blinded by pellets. Why did you deserve such pain? Love for your country?
They left us with innocent blood, so much pain and dead.But none of us will flee:when last did I cry.

— Shahiqa

I witness talents being killed and maimed, my heaven seems to be a haunted dream.
The opressor has turned this heaven into hell, yet you ask me: when last did I cry?

— Dawood Quazi

My place where the spring blossoms with its pristine myriad white florets,autumn that sets into carmine chinar leaves.
Snowflakes that smoulder the plains, lurched the lad in long cloak to play: unaware is he: when last did I cry.

— Ambar

Little does he knows ,the war monger behind him shall pierce his heart deep with a steel ball.
And the earth beneath him, waits to swallow him to set him free:when last did I cry.

— Ambar

It is time to water the seeds of unity and brotherhood in our community, dry since decades.
Why don't we feel their pain, why can't we stand with them. Will I answer if they ask me, when last did I cry ?

— Syed Burhanuldin Byhaqi

Justifying the innocent killing, saving the traitors, awarding the killers.
Burning paradise, broken dreams , curfewed nights; how insane can it be? When last did I cry?

— Faisal Malik

The mountains cradle the blooming corpses as the season of death persists.
Jhelum flows from my eyes today, and yet they ask from me: when last did I cry?

— Huzaafa

What have they made of this paradise, they don't even allow the birds to fly.
The mourners of morning are buried by dusk: love left lonely: when last did I cry.

— Hashim Qazi

If it was blood that held them away, if it was pain that kept them at bay.
From Adam to this date, how many revolutions would it be:when last did I cry.

— Yaver Hussein

When they kill us, when they blind us, don't their hearts whine.
Are we not humans for them, are we so lowly:when last did I cry.

— Basharat Fafoo

The place where pellets rain, and every mother's emotion drain.
With a heavy heart I sigh.I forgot, can you remind me, when last did I cry?

— Shakira Rashid

They kill us without a thought and then take shield when justice is sought.
The sky is crying,rivers are red, in my land so holy: when last did I cry.

— Suhail Lolu

They were oppressed and strived for freedom, and true was their struggle.
Today when we do the same, why are they blind to see:when last did I cry.

— Younis Mushtaq

Occupations are not resolved, they are ended.
They have caged our state; yet our hearts are free:when last did I cry.

— Suhail Sultan

Hustled roads take me back to my bashful streets.
These enlivening smiles remind me of my pelleted melancholy; when last did I cry?

— Shah Sabia

I am the unpleasant truth lurking behind suspended networks.
I am a throttled expression in a world of democracy; when last did I cry?

— Nissa Faheem

Who Sees but Allah.
Who Knows,but He—when last did I cry.

— Omar Rafique

Vivid is the scene, for it doesn't take only eyes to see.
Reverbrating with songs of victory, ending the tyrant spree: when last did I cry.

— Muhammad Tabish

Here, the fog was mistaken for pepper smoke.
What worse could it be, when last did I cry.

— Zainab Mufti

I asked death for what is gruesome he sought in a months of wander?
He said "Oh!The beauty is cursed;Though I rip through eyes,I rip the hearts yet the humanity cant see";when last did I cry?

— Beenish Habib

Everyday from the saffron fields, I see blood in the sky. When last did I cry?
Today it's you, tomorrow it will be me. Not that far, if you can see. When last did I cry?

— Saeed bin Zaid

O'peace-my beloved; fate won't let us be apart.
I yearn for a rendezvous with you, under a chinar tree:when last did I cry.

— Muhammad Tabish

The invisible barbed wire has sympathy for both the sides.
My tears run dry, trying to unite the pieces of humanity-when last did I cry ?

— Ram Muhammad

Tulips bloom in the garden, die too soon, too young.
Once buried, they rise as Chinar: too stong too mighty: When last did I cry.

— Sameer Mir

Pellets may blind an eye, but not the vision it holds.
Courage is intact, faith is strong, enough for fear to flee: when last did I cry.

— Muhammad Tabish

I find no sleep until my dreams turn slumberous.
Live to dream or dream to live, what alibi for Azaadi: When last did I cry.

— Sameer Mir

Do you remember the snow blessed December?
The icicles hanging from roof, the fire in Kangri? When last did I cry ?

— Sameer Mir

Waiting feels so much like rain; sometimes it brings you hope,sometimes unending pain.
How far is heaven my friend, When arrives the help heavenly? When last did I cry.

— Ayat

Hole in the heart,sadness,imprecise feelings; my heart carries a sea.
Whenever one of them says the last goodbye, my soul cries bitterly: When last did I cry?

— Nishat Shaikh Qadriyyah

We only condemn the oppresion, the tyranny.
Yet we should be tried , and you hold us guilty: When last did I cry.

— Samit Jeelani Dedmari

As a phoenix rises from ashes , the blossom of Cashmere will flower again,
Hope and toil are needed , rooting the weeds out. Even if its to cry again, we will cry in unity: When last did I cry.

— Zooni

He Created the stone. He created the Sling.
He enslaved me. He Will, if He wills to set me free.When last did I cry

— Omar Rafique

'AZAADI',etched on each wall, the wynd and barricades of kashmir. Little guileless boys holler like thunder.
Withering like a leaf of chinar, mothers sing last berceuse for sons. Yet they ask me,When last did I cry?

— Ambar

Why does she hold that picture? Perchance to remember the face. The one who was picked up at night,
the one without a trace. She rocks an empty cradle, adjusts the shawl from sides, tears form paisley: When last did I cry.

— Ayat

The scarlet apple wails to the sky, “Will I fall or will they pluck me, who will see,who will see?“
The crushed saffron sings back a lullaby,“The air will smell of freedom, my friend:you will see,you will see.”When last did I cry?

— Taani Tanvir

The old man in the graveyard, one who buries the dead. His frail hands trembling, as he counts the dead.
He looks up in the sky as he leans against the tree,whispers,"I hope they find a grave, when they come to bury me":when last did I cry.

— Ayat

I see my diary full of blood whilst writing my ordeal.
The blood of my brethren I see, is the answer to your curiosity: when last did I cry.

— Khan Ansur

They are on the roads fighting for their nation and for us they are ready to die.
The fearlessness in their eyes, the anger for the oppressors ; at times scares me, when last did I cry?

— Yasir Zahoor Rather

The Kashmir I was raised in, has been raised down to ground: prejudice has blinded my town.
In my home I need to prove to strangers, my identity:When last did I cry.

— Sama

O' My Kashmir,you were called paradise on earth,devils turned you into the hell.
The blood in my eyes screaming for justice,resist the cruel policy: when last did I cry.

— Farhana Fayaz

In the moment when I'm free, There still will be pain,
of every mother's cry and every death we thought was vain, and remember the austerity: When last did I cry.

— Owais Mir

That peace, those garden and that spiritual land of mine.
Oh God bring my Kashmir back from this killing spree: When last did I cry.

— Rasikh

Is boa'be(Mother) still looking for me? Drawing her cracked finger tips across my disappearing portrait?
Insha, ages ago, the earth carved into my eyes. Are we free? When last did I cry?

— Umar Lateef Misgar

Rivers of blood adorn our plains; butchered bodies, unmarked graves, within these mountains.
On the banks of Jehlum, an old man sobs as young die free: When last did I cry.

— Dawood Yousuf

Tears roll;when this boy with pelleted eyeballs and blood smeared face.
Bandaged eyes but heart in place: Stands up and shouts Azaadi; when last did I cry.

— Rouf Dar

Just know that your silence helped kill us, humanity did not see the brutal ways they tried to destroy our resolve.
Oh Kashmir but still you prevail, for we shall certainly be free :When last did I cry.

— Beenish Khan

They looked and saw wide territory spread; cities with humble and welcoming men.
With cruel intentions the shock troops arrived; attacked and crushed the desires of every heart to live free. When last did I cry?

— DAQ Owaisi

Tears are often what I feed my heart, at last to keep it alive.
They will blind me to starve me, Is that why they ask me,"When last did I cry?"

— Firasat

My eyes stifle to see,
as I am scared of where my dreams carry me:when last did I cry.

— Taif

Blossoms are witnessing autumn, birds forget to sing.
You wonder why my lyrics, don't make you happy? When last did I cry?

— Soudah Sultana El Zamaa

Echoes from the mountains,the agony is insurmountable.I wonder if I am next and a crash resonating within my soul.
How gaily the red street seems for these rocks to dance upon, announcing there lives no heart,they no longer lively:when last did I cr

— Sugra Shaheen

Our dead, like the moments, seperating us from dawn.
In this immemorial fight for Azaadi, when last did I cry.

— Rouf Dar

They make me blind, now they want me back.
I pray to God, guide us with light, our path so blurry: When last did I cry.

— Juanid Alam

Give me the freedom to love, Give me the freedom to choose.
In the battle of love and fear: fear has no victory: when last did I cry.

— Shakir Hussain Bhat

Another day another life, death takes its toll. At homes
we sit, we pray: restless for the one we wish to see:when last did I cry.

— Waqar Qamri

Every occupation we despise, offering every sacrifice.
Children, men, women and old. All standing out bold. Such is the longing for Azadi: when last did I cry.

— Syed Usman

Kashmir - place where we just manage to survive, yet we teach them how to live.
Essentially we are free, but they don't let us be. Our call for Azadi: when last did I cry.

— Syed Hadia

When last you came, I had eyes still alive and I would fill little cups with their heady salt wine.
Now my face lies adorned with empty eyes that can't cry, that can't see; when last did I cry?

— Nashra

Bruised and wounded, our soul is full of scars.
Hearts wail,dry as desert an eye that cannot see. When last did I cry.

— Inaam Mir

Oh mother don't cry, God has promised us hope, and every fear will go away.
When the honor is violated, I beseech from my lord, to grant us victory: When last did I cry.

— Abdul Jaleel A

We are waiting for peace, that shall set us free.
Just like the butterflies,waiting for dew from Sky,that shall set them free: when last did I cry.

— Shakir Hussain Bhat

Unleashed were hounds over the herd of sheep.
Hapless shepherd's heart cried but world cannot see: When last did I cry.

— Inaam Mir

Waiting in the garden of heaven, for the only son of mine,that I lost to that night.
And what I lost to that night, the only pearl of my sea, when last did I cry.

— Aashiq Ahmad

They may call me a rebel, but what is in my heart
is no evil, you can never break us apart: the love for my country: when last did I cry.

— Nadeem

My sleeples eyes await that moment, that dawn.
When the birds of love will fly in the sky that is free: When last did I cry.

— Fayaz

A valley that was known as paradise- full of saints, and people were free
Is lost in the mist, now we got blood filled sea.When last did i cry

— Nadeem Khan

Let the silent world know who are we. We are brave and our heart is free.
Like the mountain and the tide of sea: When last did I cry?

— Bhat Sajad

I fear for the mothers and the babies, the pain and the guilt,
The homes swelled up with shame and plea, when did I last cry.

— Abishake Koul

Born in the listless years of the half-widow's wait, we have watched our mother's aching eyes run dry:
While the earth revolved in stony silence - so we turned its stones to language: Kill me or free me! When last did I cry?

— Zainab Tayyaba

Let peace once more reign supreme
and grant each person's cherished dream. Where to dream is free: when last did I cry.

— Marie Shine

My lakes bloodied and valleys withered, and eyes so dry.
Long have I waited for my disappeared ones, now nowhere to see, when last did I cry.

— Muzaffar Hussain

Dwellers of vale, holding their collective breath , many wondering, as they have in the past
deeply traumatized, fearful of their own recent past, not defeated certainly, when last did I cry.

— Insha Kanue

Let me watch you strip piece by piece as I flee from every stick you throw,
I will let you surrender for my scars on my soul for what is coming is conformity. When last did I cry?

— Sugra Shaheen

Beautiful were their eyes not the world;for those who lost thier precious sight.
Can the oppressor return world to them, their mother's mournful eyes for them to see: when last did I cry.

— Nishat Shaikh Qadriyyah

My body shivers because of a thought. Dear God, tell me if he is alive or not,
Since my lover hasn't come home, At banks of Jhelum, lonely heart and soul roam, roam so lonely: when last did I cry.

— Aditi Sharma

When the rulers order kids with lead filled eyes, silver decorated faces, to come to schools.
Their classes now the home to the oppressor, nobody listened to my plea: when last did I cry.

— Aaishan Ahmad Khan

I wrap your blood stained shirt around me, you come in my dreams;
Storms inside my heart shouts, I regret why I allowed you to go out, Now I can never be me: when last did I cry?

— Aditi Sharma

Up in the flames once again ; enveloped in turbulance and chaos
the land of turmoil and turbulance -yet dearest to me: when last did I cry.

— Sadia Shah

This world to the world is so bright and green
Deserted, burning and painful to me: when last did I cry.

— Umer

Bedecked his body in a shroud chanting the Kalima ready to die.
A warrior, a fighter, a true soldier was he; when last did I cry.

— Sadia Shah

Tears rolling down that smiling face,as Kashmir bleeds red.
I bleed with it, and bleeds soul within me: When last did I cry.

— Aymen Rufaie

How peaceful is this land? As peaceful as a graveyard.
They silence the voices and call it peace. A mockery. When last did I cry.

— Owais

Dreaming of the serenity, tranquility,felicity I saw a nation hued with blood, blinded by pellets and ruled by the tyrants.
O my brave unarmed warriors,do not unnerve, tremble or flee: When last did I cry.

— Syed Aaira

From the graveyards I hear,the dead speak of traitors within but do not fear,our blood will not be washed,wounds fresh our bodies bare
This macabre dance of death shall spin around, We will haunt them in their dreams.Dead whisper in melancholy, when last did I cry.

— Owais Qureshi

The heart without a will to be free, doesn't beat at all.
The morning is so near to us, from this darkness we shall flee: When last did I cry.

— Irshad Hussain Dar

O Kashmir! you unfortunate paradise Yet again you are burning,
but not to their surprise. We pray for you daily: when last did I cry.

— Irshad Ahmad Bhat

They may devise their evil plots,but little do they know
everything they do, will forever be imprecise.All folly: when last did I cry.

— Irshad Ahmad Bhat

How will they conquer our wails, our stones, our sacrifice.
Not with their propaganda or force, no matter how big their army: when last did I cry.

— Irshad Ahmad Bhat

You snatched my freedom and gave me pain.
Did you ever feel to ask me,dear democracy, "When last did I cry?"

— David Akram

O Mother, wail not at the farewell of thy beloved son.
We shall meet again on the promised day, the day full of glee, when last did I cry.

— Imran

My world is robbed of joy, for cries and pain has filled the space.
The other world is ignorant to this agony: when last did I cry.

— Nida shah

Helpless and caged, I am so broken.
Shattered,I find my own dreams questioning me: when last did I cry?

— Nida shah

If only my oppressor knew: all oppression is in vain,
Darkest hour is just before the dawn, much against his fallacy: when last did I cry?

— Muhammad Daniyal

Some of us never die, the ones who die for their country.
Don't sob, don't cry. The smile on his face is sheer ecstasy: When last did I cry?

— Nazish Nazir

Amidst the coalition of shrilled cacophony and cataclysm,
caged there I am; The world watches carefree: when last did I cry.

— Bisma Hilal

The crimson blood, will stay, will last.
Slay the kids; what an act of bravery? When last did I cry.

— Burhan Shah

The stony gust of oppression withered my mother Kashmir;
She screams yearningly — When last did I cry?

— Shifah Masood

The dwellers of this paradise are prisoners to a vicious hell; did you wonder?
How awful is to have eyes and not be able to see: When last did I cry?

— Ambreen Farooq

I leave home, wondering if I will be back, I bid my beloved goodbye.
For I was born, in the meadows of my paradise, born to be free: when last did I cry.

— Adam

Every moment I cry, I mourn the lifeless bodies and the blinded eyes, my tears ask me when last did I smile?
Strangely ,O my innate being the world asks me, when last did I cry.

— Syed Aaira

I adorn the garment of love, against hate.
It's a matter of time, before it brings you on your knee, When last did I cry?

— Nazish Nazir

A year ago he was playing with the maiden snow; now he is laid in the martyr's row.
For what sin, answer me, When last did I cry?

— Nazish Nazir

I feel your pain to the depth of my soul, I pray for you as you remain chained with my core.
Question that clay that formed my being, enriched my soul and shaped my identity: when last did I cry?

— Manejeh

What good is prayer for long life, when we live with such agony.
I breathe suffering,I swallow pain, no evidence you'll ever see: when last did I cry.

— Maryam Shah

My wings are torn and tattered, No longer able to carry me and fly.
You try every method to chain us, we will always break free: when last did I cry.

— Suhail Sheikh

None of your plans, could pin us down. Our ambitions fly free.
Like a wind that blows high, master of its own territory: when last did I cry.

— Nasir Khan

We are all one, we beat as one heart, for each other, and for our valley.
We are victorious and always will be for all times to see: when last did I cry.

— Fazal Ul HaQs

And these voices,screaming in my head, remind me of my brother,my mother.
They too had a dream, apparently too costly: when last did I cry.

— Sabiyah

Blustery bullets and domineering glare, scare us no more.
For we have shouldered coffins of our hopes of democracy: when last did I cry.

— Seerat Zehra

I have heard of blood soaked mourning from the burning sands of Karbala; I lived the same mourning in the shades of Chinar.
The wails resonating in the crimson Jhelum, bloody yet more thirsty: when last did I cry.

— Essar Batool

I will visit you O beloved Wamiq, Sameer and Assiya, I will one day,
to tell you that you now rest in a land of no tyranny: when last did I cry.

— Shams Irfan

The Chinars that used to shade our childhood will be free of sandbags and barbed wires
and nobody will question our identity: when last did I cry.

— Shams Irfan

I will visit you again, O beloved, to tell you that
there is nothing green in our saffron fields, only poetic purple bounty, when last did I cry.

— Shams Irfan

Gagged voices, broken limbs, tear-some eyes. That is how we are defined.
The land of blinded sons, is our new identity: when last did I cry.

— Aqib Iqbal Dar

His soul danced on the edge of time like the dew on the tip of a leaf.
As they lay him in his grave, his friends come and join the breeze, welcome him with merry: when last did I cry?

— Mouris

And this marriage of heaven and hell, gave birth to oppression in this vale of death.
Do you doubt the water of Jehlum ? I am Kashmir, don't ask me, "When last did I cry ?"

— Zuhaib Manzoor

O my beloved people, be not afraid of dark nights.
Sun will rise and oppressor will flee: When last did I cry.

— Imran

At dusk, in those restless nights, my people die. Dear land, my eyes will never lie.
We've lost them but whither, no one knows. Jhelum flows so full of pain, can't you see? When last did I cry?

— Aditi Sharma

O' beloved son of Kashmir, a sacrifice shall never go waste.
We will fight from where you left, fight till victory: when last did I cry.

— Haris Abrar Kashmiri

He prayed to God for a divine miracle.
For the rain of no blood, for a place where we live peacefully: when last did I cry.

— Afefa Seher

No more mothers to wail their sons,no father shouldering coffin of beloved ones.
The day we breath the awaited air of aazadi: when last did I cry.

— Nasir Khan

I am drenched and soaked in blood, yet they call me a rebel worthy to be punished.
And the one with the weapon that inflicts the pain, for them Messiah is he: When last did I cry.

— Waseem Raja

The smallest coffin is the heaviest of all.
Nothing could hold back their tears, not even bravery: when last did I cry.

— Malik Rafee

We all wait for that dawn, when sun will rise with all its might.
And its rays are not choked, but free: when last did I cry.

— Javed

O Kashmir,O land of my dreams. Hold my hand, hold on as long as you can.
I am as tired as you are, but I will never let go, not until you are free: when last did I cry.

— Younis Mushtaq

As I lay upon the turf of my grief, a soul passes by as I bleed,
sings to me the songs of aazadi. When last did I cry?

— Farhaan Umer

When the sun was shining bright, the moon dazzling through the night.
Did we neglect the beast stepping in, thus lost all the glee: when last did I cry.

— Saalim Maqbool

The processions, the funerals, restrictions and the curfew: all of it together.
God, now have some mercy, are we so guilty? when last did I cry.

— Malik Rafee

Look at the dark sky at night, look in the eye that lost its sight.
The pain is far too much, but more is the desire to be free; when last did I cry?

— Haiqa Fayaz

If there is paradise on earth. It is not here, It is not here, It is not here.
Not where people die, die effortlessly: when last did I cry.

— Younis Mushtaq

Nature cries,screams, "Where is Kashmir, the Jannat-e-Benazir?"
And my oppressor, how heartless is he: when last did I cry.

— Aliza

Mothers sing lullabies for the sons lost and buried.
Kids lull to sleep their father’s corpse, under the Chinar tree: when last did I cry.

— Malik Rafee

Far off from the Paradise craven I stand watching it spifflicated. Thousands of abominable thoughts you spill on me.
I promise my land I'll never fall debile for I have this ire in me: when last did i cry?

— Muneeb Aijaz

With pellets, bullets, and the brutality; tatter they did humanity.
Caged in the prison of a curfewed tyranny, when last did I cry.

— G. Q. Parray

Shattered they dare not dream of blooming buds in a heaven turned butchery.
where the voices raised are chopped down brutally: when last did I cry?

— Sabreen Parray

We lost them like the fragrance in the wind.
They disappear never to return; what tragedy. When last did I cry?

— Sabreen Parray

Burning valley, wailing women, crying children and dying men.
World is silent, no one hears, no one cares: they pretend not to see: when last did I cry.

— Lone Reyaz

Once upon a time they called me Paradise, I was elated, they spoke of my beauty.
Now they tear me apart, and gift me atrocity: when last did I cry.

— Neha Singh

Haunted roads, wounded hearts, fearless prey in my arms.
One last prayer one last dream, give me wings let me free: when last did I cry.

— Mudasir Ahmad Kuloo

Amidst the season of curfew, and the festival of white shrouds and blooming graveyards.
I sang a love song to the bygone peace, and love set my mourning free, when last did I cry?

— Zubair Arif Shah

We belong to a generation of broken, of the dead yet walking, beaten to earth yet coming up with a smiling face.
We are our heroes, patient and courageous; fighting, we stand proud of our balckened eyes that cannot see. When last did I cry?

— DAQ Owaisi

My nights turn sleepless as I visualize Kashmir.
From a land full of bloom to the land full of graves, such cruelty: When last did I cry?

— Ariha Hamdani

To the half-widow, awaiting her husband’s message,
who was buried unmarked under the dark sky: stars stand witness, that night they did see: when last did I cry?

— Aameer Rafiq Wani

There, where lived a soul inside a corpse, disappeared and decomposed.
A wailing mother sings songs for her son, waiting for him to be free, when last did I cry.

— Hameem Fayaz

My heart longs to be home. Far off from home I see the crimson sky,
the tears of a child, the pellets in her face. O' Zuhra we will be free: when last did I cry?

— Hameem Fayaz

Halt ! while lingers my bleeding grace:
burning, waning and failing in this breathless plea. When last did I cry?

— Farhaan Umer

Laughter once resonated between these blood stained Chinars.
Now a blind child asks me, "When last did I cry?"

— Sanna Sultan

So little is the worth of life of people of this paradise.
For animals they so care, for us not even sympathy: when last did I cry?

— Sheeshu

There is pain, there is anger, and there is gloom in the air.
Is my land actually cursed or held captive by destiny? When last did I cry?

— Kalpana Tikku

Here the wolves are no wolves and the victim is no victim.
Here children are no children, just a beast of democracy: when last did I cry.

— Altaf

We lost a son, a brother- the one who fought on our side.
I met him in my dreams and he asked me, "When last did I cry?".

— Manzoor Wani

O children of Kashmir, what you deserve is the love, laughter and freedom.
History decreed that your freedom must yield from tears and tragedy, when last did I cry.

— Mary Scully

My yearning and longing brought me to you. Like long lost lovers, we finally unite. Are certain things never meant to go right?
The streets cry, the rivers cry, the meadows seem to plea. I told them I was an absentee, never actually free. When last did I cry?

— Kalpana Tikku

Death dances in our streets, and the bullets play the tune.
They try to suppress us with their power, but truth is Almighty: when last did I cry?

— Sofi Shah Nawaz

One by one they pluck the flowers off, the nightingales cry.
They will stop at nothing, Only when the garden is empty? When last did I cry?

— Ariha Hamdani

He,for sure,will recompense our struggle,let not the faith die in me.
I will rise again to witness my homeland lit up like a christmas tree,when last did I cry.

— Faiza Wani

With my Henna colored hands, I wipe out the drops of blood from his forehead.
Looking at my martyred groom, I wonder, lost in a reverie: When last did I cry?

— Seema Bhat

As God came down from His throne in the last part of the night,
She looked up in the sky, eyes wet with pain: and on her lips a silent plea. When last did I cry?

— Faraz

I see the helplessness of my people; I see the color of rivers changing.
A beautiful young bride on the bank of Jehlum, washing the henna off her hands. With bruised lips She asks me,"When last did I cry?"

— Insha Gulzar

I don't feel you anymore, pellets over pellets.
I am numb to your pain and don't remember in all honesty, When last did I cry.

— Irshad Ahmad Bhat

When the wailings are hushed, meet me there, by the banks of Jehlum.
From behind the bridal veils, my cold corpse beckons me: When last did I cry.

— Seema Bhat

I see the doctor standing over me wondering if I can make it.
I can't breathe, this air is killing me: when last did I cry.

— Nasir

In the valley of marytrs, she writes the horror she sees.
The tears that turn into blood, the yearning to be free: when last did I cry.

— Rabiya Rasheed

This is the city of broken promises, shattered dreams, unspoken truth.
Not the one where you want to be. Yet I love it, its home to me: when last did I cry.

— Waseem Ahad

We will endure any pain, any misery that you know.
We shall take it with a smile, if it will set us free: when did I cry.

— Nasir

They wrap themselves in the cloak of humanity, the priests of brutality.
And when justice will be served they will have nowhere to flee: when last did I cry.

— Suhail Ahmad

Eid is upon us, will this all be forgotten?
Those Ishmaels that we lost to eternity: when last did I cry.

— Waseem Ahad

A lost lover, a forgotten warrior and the blood laden memory lane.
They robbed this land of everything, even last shred of serenity: when last did I cry.

— Jigar Majid Bhat

Blood painted streets, these playgrounds without children,
The almond blossoms are here, but now none is there to see: when last did I cry.

— Khanfuraat

The red Jehlum that flows, Zabarwan echoing screams and wails.
Why they call us Kashmir, one day you will also see: when last did I cry.

— Insha Gulzar

Are they blind like us, or they don't want to see.
They hurt our women and children, where is humanity? When last did I cry.

— Malik Rafee

The eerie silence of a curfewed street is broken by a scream. Two more blinded eyes and one more broken dream.
Sun sets with the colour of your blood. As I stare at its crimson hues,I myself whisper to me, "When last did I cry?"

— Shahana Gani Wani

The wave of anger shakes me into a stubborn quandary; as if hands of death quiver me
Did I let it pass for my shaky legs, my silenced gaze or my lopsided heart;ask me, "When last did I cry?".

— Naseer Aafaq

As the coward aimed the bullet onto her son, she felt in her heart an ache of loosing loved one.
As the brave hearts brought him home,broken hearts sang a lullaby: when last did I cry.

— Nishat Shaikh Qadriyyah

Ask my apple blossoms that smell of gun powder, or my blood filled rivulets that no longer murmur.
Ask the pain growing in my walnut tree or iris in the graveyard, waiting for me: when last did I cry?

— Abbas Zaffar

In the deep sunken eyes of the face behind the veil,
a mother waiting for her buried son to reveal. Unwrap the mystery: when last did I cry.

— Shoaib Masoodi

Distorted faces, broken limbs, bleeding hearts, burning souls.
Drenched in atrocities, here I am with a yearning to be free: When last did I cry ?

— Ahmad Waseem

Sometimes I wonder why we sacrificed everything for just one thing?
Then my heart reminds me of innocents dying and mothers crying. When will we put an end to this misery? When last did I cry?

— Majid Maqbool

Through the window panes stained in red, I look at the scene of mountains, rivers and flower beds.
Oh, how I pray fresh and fragrant again it would be: when last did I cry.

— Anjum Taban

I watched him in the cradle, I watched him playing in the streets.
Never thought he will be lying in the pool of blood, for his Mother to see: when last did I cry.

— Fatima Naqvi

Bleeding eyes, endless pain, restless souls: screaming out for justice. Lets have faith in our hearts,
this too shall pass one day, Indeed a test from Almighty: when last did I cry.

— Umaiz Nabi

Let’s take back what we deserve, its no sin to be free.
The devil is on the loose again, let’s fight for you and me. When last did I cry?

— DAQ Owaisi

Even the waters of our very own Jehlum once became our enemy,
betokening the need to repent and to turn to Almighty: when last did I cry.

— Faiza Wani

Our streets have turned red, they are no longer concrete.
They also cry with us, that is why they are lonely: when last did I cry.

— Naseer Aafaq

Blinded eyes, choked voices ,bruised bodies and countless tears:
For us this Eid, a gift from democracy: when last did I cry?

— Ariha Hamdani

Dear patriot- in the darkness of your room when you go to sleep.
Do you shudder, when you think of your national frenzy: when last did I cry.

— Javed Iqbal

I could only find pain, as I riffled through its pages.
Don't cry when I am gone, when you read my diary: when last did I cry.

— Amiya Zaman

I am the one who lost everything, all those things that I once could hold.
I am the one who has no name, no address; resting somewhere peacefully: when last did I cry.

— Ziema Mushtaq

And a day will come when I will walk free, in the land of my own, full of beauty.
The justice will be done, and the entire world will see. When last did I cry ?

— Ahmad Waseem

Justice is ever denied, voices are always choked, Silence for survival is key.
Those who robbed me of my tears, can I atleast sight for this all happens infront of me? When last did I cry?

— Kashoo Tawseef

Tears from the eyes of a mother, the blood in the streets where once we played.
I seem to have forgotten, can someone remind me, when last did I cry?

— Shah Roohul

My eyes have cried enough and I will cry even more.
Can you hold back your tears, if it was your baby? When last did I cry?

— Ziema Mushtaq

Above us the sky is dark, rain tries to wash the stains of blood on streets, the lasting torment is passed on.
Around us are songs for our heroes, their blood like wine returning to land from whence it came, our history: when last did I cry.

— Ibrahim Bahati

We are caged from inside, how on outside will we be free?
How many years behind these bars, when will they set this prisoner free? When last did I cry.

— Shah Roohul

Hindu, muslim ; Shia, Sunni: Everyone sings for Azadi.
Maiming all the voices they trade them for theocracy: when last did I cry.

— Malik Rafee

Life is caged like the little lifeless baby
whose shroud was burried by the earth falsely. When did I last cry?

— Sami

Her warm embrace still resonates in my memories.
I close my eyes and see her arms still open wide for me: When last did i cry.

— Ziema Mushtaq

The can buy weapons but not the courage that our streets breed everyday.
We cannot betray for what we suffered from tyrany: when last did I cry?

— Rayees Wani

As the sky bursts into tears and the valley turns red,
our hearts are drenched with agony yet they cant see: when last did i cry.

— Mir Burhan

Oppressed by a diabolic regime, we make stones of courage
to supress the devil from Jamaraat to Kashmir; we fight resolutely: when last did i cry.

— Tawqeer Nasir

In the nation with dwindling humanity, to dwell is to suffer.
Enough of suffering, we fight for aazadi; when last did i cry?

— Harish Junjun

Killed, tortured, disappeared and raped;
So orphaned and widowed are we: when last did i cry?

— Sabreena Asgar

When a mother carries a dead son, the earth fears her wailing agony
that can flame up a large sea: when last did I cry?

— Harsaran

With sunken eyes and pained heart,
I pretend not to cry for this insane bigotory: when did last I cry.

— Sabah Wani

When the turth is not consumable, it is burned to fuel the heaven turned hell.
O Allah! only you can see; O Allah! make us free: When last did i cry.

— Shaista Mir

Our spring yields blood; the Chinars shed tears. They battle our agonies in the deserted lanes.
Even the moon poisions our veins in the night; The morning birds sing this painful story;when last did i cry.

— Bisma Parveez

As the tears dried up, blood rivered my eyes.
O' the civilized world, I wonder how blind can you be: when last did I cry?

— Reshi Wasiq

Come, let us all leave our graves, live a while, and then die.
Our snow still melts the sun, moon weeps in the dark lake, yet to be free: when last did I cry.

— Madhumita

Through her eyes of innocence, I cried at the death of two lovers.
I throbbed out my heart screaming profanely: when last did I cry.

— Jigar Majid Bhat

Warm expanse of sky, raining silence on me, when last did I cry?
My last breath I breathe, in the hands of the enemy, when last did I cry?

— Zeenath Jahaan

Honouring my faith like Ibrahim, I sent my son for a sacrifice.
I hear the dirges sung for my Ismail. They all ask me: when last did I cry?

— Nissa

I lost all I earned; not a safe bet I played with my destiny.
Peace, an unaffordable commodity, is sold so pricey: when last did I cry.

— Samir

With trembling hands, an old mother dusts off the picture of her lost son.
"That's one more autumn, blurred by tears inflammatory" When last did I cry.

— Krish

Tonight I touched her healing eyes and I asked to myself: when last did I cry?
Days dissolved into nights without her sight;without her glee:when last did I cry?

— Miran Gulzar

As the young child shoulders the coffin of his father,
women peep through the windows to glimpse their hero's cavalry. When last did I cry.

— Miran Gulzar

A desperate cry screeches in a corner far from ears;Addressing bodies soaked in blood and heart full of fears.
The Bulbul that was singing in the lap of mountains is now burried silently:When last did I cry.

— Miran Gulzar

In the dark I heard a cry, "O dear Aasiya how did you die?"
The waters were shallow, not a devil sea, when last did i cry.

— Ramz e yousuf

When birds are doomed to fly and the children blinded to see.
When streams of crimson flows and the world fails to see. When last did I cry.

— Rakshanda Bhat

Eids passed, yet our moons are under siege; caged, killed and maimed.
Our children sighting the last moon are now blinded to see: when last did I cry.

— Malik Rafee

Tears are now a distant memory; eyes remember nothing of them now.
Befriended they have blood instead, that flood the streets empty: when last did I cry.

— Aatina Malik

This holy paradise, full of nature's bounty,
is now a burning abyss, a place ungodly- when last did I cry?

— Priya Yelpale

"Peace for Kashmir", my Ears long for the words.
The borders vapourise into a beautiful scenery, my eyes yearn to see: When last did I cry?

— Sarthak Arya

In the mass grave of your conscience, lie our bodies; blinded, bullet-ridden, buried in prison. These guns of yours, and stony hearts,
an integral part of your inhumanity. These precious stones in our hands, scripting our struggle for sovereignty. When last did I cry.

— Nitasha Kaul

With each blinding and with each killing, they were the ones at loss,
Little did they know they gave up their souls, that were black already: when last did I cry?

— Haseeb Sofi

Those rivers of tear are dry now, they left a ravine down the tender cheeks.
The heartbeats resounding gunshots, beating relentlessly: when last did I cry?

— Jyothi Jayaprakash

Eyes craving for that beauty, that peace,that heaven.
He wasn't wrong when he said guns and roses go together till eternity: when last did I cry.

— Mumtaz

We hold stones of fate in our hands; with a dream that we have all along cherished.
A showdown and we will triumph, and walk away free: when last did I cry.

— Zeeshan Zahoor

With the blood gushing rivers that flow in the valley.
A mother cries for help as she hugs her baby: when last did I cry.

— Haseeb Sofi

The minarets of our mosques, the tulips in our garden and the water of these rivers.
Some loud, some in silence, echo pain and agony: when last did I cry.

— Zahid Mushtaq

No mothers touch can make him speak, no lullabies now he will seek.
If her touch could made him breathe: She will hold that hand and never let go, not till eternity: when last did I cry?

— Ezna

If we give up this time, I fear for that day when our brothers will say,
they have forgotten it all, surrendered their memory: when last did I cry.

— Rayees Wani

Graffities of liberty , flags of freedom, you painted with beloved's blood.
O' mother of a martyr I wonder how valiant you can be, When last did I cry?

— Reshi Wasiq

Those promises, those words that we exchanged, still echoes in my mind.
How many more years till all of us will see? When last did I cry.

— Hammad Mufti

Long live kashmir, the years full of peace and hope.
Truth will never die, not in this land-especially: when last did I cry.

— Ahmed

I follow Hussien.I fear no pain. With my existence,I defy opression, with dignity I will die.
I row a boat of hope in the blood filled sea. When last did I cry.

— Murtaza Ali Waris

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

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

It touched me on the banks of the destitute lake and then again, on that river of wrath.
The eerie wind of conflict consumed me: when last did I cry.

— Moonis Ali

Where funerals, consignment of the beloved to the grave has become a norm.
Wailings of the parents tremble me; I scorn, flout the tyranny, crave to be free: when last did I cry.

— Ishfaq Rashid

Some have forgotten our history, few care to remember those who died fighting.
Some will return home back while others we will never see: when last did I cry.

— Azhar Imtiyaz

All precious things we lost on our way.
What we gathered in the sun, is now buried under the tree. When last did I cry.

— Hashim Bashir

In the land of saints, I wait for you like a Sufi.
Tears from my eyes, my voiceless screams, are not lost completely. When last did I cry.

— Hashim Bashir

My boat drowned in the dry, inch by inch slowly. When last did I cry.
As Niobe looses her mind, she asks me: When last did I cry?

— M Hussain

Deprived of eyes, my heart will shriek everytime my soul blinks.
Alas! they blinded me not my faith that ignites me: when last did I cry?

— Moonis Ali

A small child caught in the abbatoir of justice fancies a dream of peace.
What shall mother sing to lull him for tranquility. When last did I cry?

— Mir Haseeb

Not Far away from the eyes of the world, we continue to suffer and die silently.
All the blood spilled fills the vale like the red sea: when last did I cry.

— Fayyaz Ganaie

As the soldiers march past the Chinar in the town square,
The trees wail, shedding their leaves untimely: When last did I cry?

— Tawqeer Nasir

Tangled in the barbed wire, since times immemorial.
In search of solace, in this war-torn territory. When last did I cry?

— Tawqeer Nasir

O' martyrs of my land, the spring shall soon arrive, the flowers bloom.
Every night, my dreams whisper to me: When last did I cry.

— M Hussain

I wait for the morning when the air I breath is free.
Dawn of freedom, come soon we wait eagerly: when last did I cry.

— Suhail Sultan

Jhelum has washed the time yet to come.
My past and present are asking earnestly,"When last did I cry".

— Aritra Chakrabarty

The marriage bells were replaced by mourning cries.
She lost her son on the wedding day. My heart kept asking me,"When did I last cry?"

— Shruti Sharma

The apples colored in blood, the tulips drenched in tears, the saffron smelling of smoke.
These deaths, this pain, this mad spree: when last did I cry?

— Ritu Poddar

With a bruised body but a firm heart I defy. Inflict some more pain, but I won't cry.
As the smoke rises high in sky, you can't find me; When last did I cry?

— Jahangeer Khan

The diminishing smiles of those innocent faces, the empty swing in park and the lifeless chinars.
Everythng is so dull and gloomy without him. Where did he go without me: when last did I cry.

— Syed Aaira

The blood and the sweat of my brothers adding a fragrance to the air.
The early morning breeze brushes my face, whispers silently, when last did I cry?

— Syed Aaira

It was a beginning of the new Karbala.
A fresh tear drop with its own story follows to see, when last did I cry.

— Shoiab Tariq

I ask my enemy, when will the pain be enough to kill me.
He showed me his scars centuries old and asked me,"When last did I cry?"

— Taalib

On the altar of faith we sacrifice our brothers, eid is far from eid this time.
Are there any more sins for us to repent? There were too many. When last did I cry.

— Taalib

I tangled myself in vines, and torched my own branches, I was born green
but to glow was my dream, over this ruthless wish to be free, when last did I cry?

— Taalib

Was I killed for the nation or for my right to be free.
I drown in my own tears gifted by destiny: when last did I cry?

— Taalib

You may try to quell us with all your might, we won't give up this fight.
That orphan girl tells me that her dad has gone to get Azaadi, when last did I cry?

— Taalib

When peace left me alone, darkness became my friend, when last did I cry.
Not love, it's filled with tears: everyone's cup of tea, when last did i cry

— Suraj Surothiya

By a border we are defined, caged by a boundary, when last did I cry.
To one side a martyr, a rebel to another territory: when last did I cry.

— Francis Swamy

In the evenings as the candle flickers by the sill of our old window.
The victims of carnage, mayhem and atrocities come alive from old pages of my diary: when last did I cry.

— Imran Dar

Will you read this poem in heaven Shahid, the one from your country?
Didn't you say, "The world is full of paper, write to me": when last did I cry.

— Dawood Yousuf