Day 28: India’s Siege on the Vale of Kashmir
by Ayaz Rasool Nazki
Trapped
in a tomb
you yearn
for a voice:
a family kin
a friend
a stranger
even an enemy would do
a nightingale sings (of joy?)
a crow caws caws caws
Your santoor
in the corner
its strings
concertina
Dumb
for notes
you sing
only of blood
to sculpt
wounds
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Ayaz Rasool Nazki, Kashmiri poet, painter, novelist lives in Srinagar. His recent poetry collection is ‘Songs of Light’ (Writers Workshop 2018). Translated from the original Kashmiri by Rafiq Kathwari / @brownpundit #StandWithKashmir