The Burning Paradise

Is Kashmir still the paradise on earth?
Are its Winters still white?
Are its waters still blue?
Is it still a sacred land?

Certainly not!
Yes, it’s not as it was.
It might be paradise,
But the burning one!

Its Winters,
Are bereft of their true sheen now.
They send not,
White snow now, but of red color!

Sacred land – is now a reverie!
It purely lost its pure nature.
All it happened,
Since the land turned occupied,

Under the impure rulers.
Definition of paradise,
Has reversed to hell!

For killing, rape and torture,
Have now taken place –
Like strong edifices,
And this byproduct of occupation,
Is suffered by us (Kashmiris)!