Shimanta Bhattacharyya - Kashmir

Iridescent drops of blood
Gleaming like scattered beads
Upon a desert of virgin snow
Bear a mute testimony

To somebody’s twisted lust.
The terrible hungers
Of a famished land
Record in their throes

The birth of gun-toting messiahs
And a feeble pulse
Of a primeval storm that echoes
Gory tales of a divided hearth.




Shimanta Bhattacharyya

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