Nilnag-(The Blue Spring) ! Poem by Dr Mohammed Younis Dar

Smooth waters flowing in a hush
Cool breeze helping it to drift down
The ripples seem so uneven and turbulent
Making diverse patterns and adding the zeal
In older days they say it was a small spring
And then it expanded its surface and vastness
In the August heat whenever I feel uneasy
Or at times when the tenderness emerges
I do visit this place and feel the auroma
Of my love, of my past experiences
It allows me to delve again over the thread
The thread of untold mysteries
It helps me to tread those old paths
The paths full of barricades and blind curves
It is here I see the life through a different prism
I see and think of the people who are
The victim's of time, of heavens freaks
I see this life through the eyes of the mother's
Those Who have lost their loved ones
And whose hopes are shattered as they believe
Only on the day of judgment the justice will preveal
It is here I try to think over the unfortunate resident's
Of this conflict trodden and exhausted vale
As I see the lush green forests in the upperreaches
I feel the pain of our small gullible kids
Those for whom the world doesn't exist
And in whose lives the night never bids adieu
I see here the nature at contrast
As I see the Shining waters of NILNAG
I began to believe the lifes eternity
But in an impulse I become indifferent
I see the same waters turning red
And giving me the flashbacks of horror
As I see towards the west
The sun is about to set
The vale seems sleeping its last
Dying a silent death!
Ah! The unfortunate resident's!
Ah! The Paradise lost
And NILNAG imbibes in me the despondency
Yet again!

(Written in haste on the bank's of NILNAG- The blue spring, located in the upper reaches of Chadoora in Budgam district of The Kashmir valley)