Looking through the horizon

This poem represents the state of Jammu and KAshmir, its people, their lives, their hardships, their happiness, their treasures all as I see them.

Look through my eyes and you will see the Paradise on Earth

Which shines like the mighty sun adoring India with its mesmerizing beauty

 

Look through my eyes and you will see the city of Srinagar

Welcoming us and taking us in her arms

 

Look through my eyes and you will see the silent streets,

The silent mourn and the silent land

Which cries out loudly for help

 

Look through my eyes and the city of lake will come alive,

The economy which thrives on the miracles of Mother Nature

The magic of the smile of a child hiding behind closed doors

 

Look through my eyes and you will see the cruel men in uniform

Who slowly and steadily poison the inhabitants of the land

But the same men wearing a white apron

To cover the stains of blood spilled across their bodies

 

Look through my eyes and you will experience the divinity of the holy ground,

 The spirit of God that hovers over holy towers of the land

The secrecy behind the great walls and architecture

That shouts to proclaim the history of the place

 

Look through my eyes and you will stand at the gates of heaven

You will see glimpses of the angels coming to you

Carrying you in their arms to the Promised Land

Where there is only happiness around

 

Look through my eyes and there you find weeping mothers and missing children

You find mothers who have written a new history with bleeding hands

You see the dominant power taking over people’s possessions

Who then are stranded on the gory roads

 

Look through my eyes and you will see how different are they and how different am I

I see them crying, my feet go ahead but my heart is still there

My mind is not ready to stop but my heart is not ready to move

I am lost and I don’t know what to do

 

Look through my eyes and you will see duality

Duality of the place, the people and everything present here

You will see the co-existence of both heaven and hell

 

Look through my eyes and you will see the grandiosity diminishing

And you will hear the lamenting of the unhappy souls in despair

The sound will be so loud that you won’t be able to silence it

 

Look through my eyes and you will see nothing

But an illusory world where nothing exists in reality

Where our cold hearts and minds are busy running behind material happiness

The happiness which is mortal and not enduring

 

Look through my eyes and you will see the real human nature

Just like the fading sunshine over the mountain tops our hearts are fading into darkness

Where they can no longer see anyone but themselves

 

Look through my eyes and you will know the creation of the divine

Without borders and boundaries

But where now we have torn our motherland into so many pieces

 

And once you have seen the world my way

Just take a minute out of your life and tune into yourselves

You will discover a new you

Finally I would like to mention these special people without whom my experience, my enlightenment, my trip, my life is incomplete.

Love you all

 

Remember Life is a Mystery

keep solving it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Shivam Murari]

Brilliant imagery and patriotism! Its brilliant the way you do so many things about with this poem. How you begin with imagery and then end with moral!. Really nice write :)
Jai Hind!

[gladis]

Thank u so much Shivam.. ur appreciatn really means a lot.. :)

[Shivam Murari]

:)