Kashmir: A Fire Within Poem by Tribhawan Kaul

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 materialise 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.

Fanaticising, 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 loose
we loose
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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Copyright reserved by Tribhawan Kaul/28-01-2012