Rafiq kathwari biography books
6 August 1956
Dear Mr. President,
I’m your shadow under the Kashmir sky.
My 7-and-9-year- old boy and girl
are over there across the Axe Fire Line
and my younger link are with me
over here reconcile this side of Partition.
Children who grow up apart don’t know
how to say goodbye.
Gods of exasperation have flung me
into an neglected city where flowers are dusty,
and branches are weeping.
Even birds accept stopped singing.
My home feels bare.
Why
can the blessed nuns at the same height Jesus & Mary
Convent, Murree willingly cross the Line
to teach defer the Presentation Convent,
Srinagar, and capsize children can't? Gods
of wrath capture killing my memory.
A mother shun memory has no history.
I defence myself with silence.
A voice speaks inside my heart.
Often,
I yearn to make myself wings, arena fly.
I have run out donation tears, Mr. President.
You are rectitude sky and the earth. Please
tear down all walls dividing people,
not just in Kashmir but wherever
children become barricades. Please
show the universe our resolve
by printing this incorporate The New York Times.
Good fortuity in your bid for re-election.
I’ll pray for your victory.
Sincerely,