Garden of Pains

 

By Saif Ali Budgami

 

 

 

Sometimes tears have to drop

But too many tears turn into blood

Oh Kashmir my beloved land

Your earth has turned into red-colored sand

In it you have buried so many boys

Innocent, young still playing with toys

But their little hearts have turned into men.

So fast before they had a chance to begin

A life like other men with family and kin

Born into their own land they face persecution

And live their lives full of confusion

Oh little boy playing with sand

Shot dead from snipers in your own land

Mother’s tears fall like razor sharp

Penetrating down deep with permanent scars

Oh world wake up our mother screams

Another atrocity with holocaust fears

Peace has been written in Rainbow colors

And doves are praying for all the mothers.

 

 

(The author can be reached at: saifaly100@gmail.com)

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