Blood Stained Snow

Maharaj Krishan Santoshi

Translation By: R K Bharati

The sky is clear

The whole city is bathed in sunshine

But my mind is so overcast with clouds

That at any time it can snow inside me .

Like that of my childhood

And with the refulgent snow

Shall I wash all the creases of my notions

The fragment of land which for years

Have I been hiding inside me

I lived by the greenery in this city

Where my identity is of the migrant

I have nothing by which to retaliate

The violence save snow

I try to break the ice inside me on roads

with loving palms I keep on knocking

at the doors of people

Trying to break the shameless silence of friends

Holding in my eyes the melancholy of

The JHELUM, the Chinars and the lakes

weep for hours on the blood stained snows

I think my soul is a bird

Whose nest is the whole Valley

Which I fled for fear of the bullet

On vain hopes

Those who relish bloodstains on the snow

Don't know in their aeshetic sense

How many murders have they committed

In the mystic bossom.

The sky is clear

The whole city is bathed in sunshine

And this time the warmth has crept inside me

The ice is melting

The cascades are bursting

All of a sudden

Rivers are roaring

Which were silent till yesterday

But I have forgotten the rippling of rivers

Because I am so frightened

That I feel the rivers too are conspiring against me.

I do not know how long shall

I have to crawl

On the map of the country

But wherever we live

We will have a sloping roof

over our heads

Throwing snow into the courtyard.

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Courtesy:  Maharaj Krishan Santoshi   and  Pangs  Of  Exile 1998 Published by Sharda Peeth Prakashan