Eh Kashmir! Poem by Mohammad Younus

Eh Kashmir! What a golden face you had!
Now you have a paled face with sunken eyes;
Eh Kashmir! What a misfortune that the birds in your garden...
...have stopped singing ecstatic notes!
Now they are singing on their dead the melancholic mourning songs;
Eh Kashmir! What a blazing inferno on earth you have become!
Now for peace and freedom lover you are the paradise lost;
Eh Kashmir! What a doomsday!
Now devil occupies your great heights, moors and meadows;
Eh Kashmir! What a catastrophe has befallen you!
Now ruthless rule you;
Eh Kashmir! What a pity thieves have broken you into fragments!
Now they are fighting with each other to have you whole;
Eh Kashmir! What a great elegance in the comity of nations you had!
Now you have lost your sovereignty - what a shame!
Eh Kashmir! What a fragrant garden of roses you were!
Now smell of decomposed slain bodies is coming from you;
Alas! You have lost your name and fame...
...as a sanctuary of peace and tranquility.

MyKoul