A Gazal for Kashmir
(In imitation of Ali Eteraz)
Sailen
Routray
 |
| The Kashmir Mission Hospital in 1914 (Wikimedia Commons) From the book 'Beyond the Pir Panjal' by Earnest Neve |
There
is an oppressor in every man, able to instruct a slaughter.
There is a tank in every TV screen, but #kashmirilivesmatter.
Though in whataboutery-land,
poets still prick the mind,
When pellets fail tongues, do #kashmirilivesmatter?
When
the ashes of myths are mourning for succour,
What truths can I fabricate to make #kashmirilivesmatter?
When
every child’s visage is target-practice gear,
There is no song I can sing to make #kashmirilivesmatter.
Sailen
has no salve to sooth tyranny, Bharat,
But nothing else matters, when Kashmiri lives don’t matter.
.jpg)
Kashmiri lives matter because they are equally human beings as like ours. Sometimes I feel we are no more humans rather we are only a selfish creature who is destroying this beautiful earth.
ReplyDeleteKashmiri lives matter, because all lives matter. Isn't it?
DeleteLove and concern for Kashmiri.
ReplyDeleteLove and concern for all humans? :)
DeleteExcellent sailen....you convey much that our cowardly silence hides....
ReplyDeleteThanks for your encouragement.
DeleteVery sensitive touch to this delicate feeling.. Sailen anyway can arouse the fellow feeling through his expressions..
ReplyDeleteThank you bhai. Regards.
DeleteWe live in orwellian times, "some animals are more equal" & some dont make the count at all. The poet shows us the mirror.
ReplyDeleteBut in these times does a 'poet' and what he has to say count? I wonder.
DeleteSuch bold thoughts need to be much more louder. Keep raising your thoughts.Its high time for a revolution now.
ReplyDeleteThe only true revolution is one of hearts and minds no?
Deleteସୁନ୍ଦର ହୋଇଛି ।
ReplyDeleteଧନ୍ୟବାଦ ଭାଇ । ପ୍ରଣାମ ।
DeleteA beautiful thought about the people. The Kashmiries. Both the Muslims and the Pandits. I have friends on both sides of the camps and I have seen they both suffer.
ReplyDelete