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Pulwama War On the Road

THERE IS BLOOD IN MY TEARS…….MOTHER INDIA POKRAN AT PULWAMA YESTERDAY MY CHILDREN HAD STARS IN THEIR EYES TODAY WITH ME THEY TOO HAVE TEARS IN THEIR EYES DID I SAY TEARS, ONLY TEARS, OH NO! GOD BELIEVE ME THEY HAVE BLOOD IN THEIR TEARS AS ONLY I CAN SEE ‘CAUSE IT ISN’T THE ENEMY TO THE COUNTRY WHO DID IT ALL TRAITORS AMONG MY OWN COUNTRYMEN WHO MADE IT ALL MY HUSBAND A VERY BRAVE MAN WAS ON DUTY’S CALL HE JOINED MANY OTHERS LIKE HIM FOR A DISTANT CALL IN A CONVOY OF BUSES THEY DROVE THROUGH ICY ROADS SOME SLEPT AND SOME SANG HAVING MIXED THOUGHTS AS THE TREES WERE BARREN AND WINTER SO RUDE ALL HAD A FAMILY TO CARE AND NO TIME TO BROOD ONLY THE PRIDE OF NATION THEY CHERISHED IN MIND AND TO WORK FOR ITS GLORY THEY NEVER DID MIND I PROUDLY SENT MY MAN WITH ALL HIS MIGHT TO GUARD THINKING MY NATION WILL ALWAYS TREATED HIM AS GOD LEAST WOULD HE HAVE IMAGINED HE WOULD BE NO MORE FOR SUDDENLY FROM NOWHERE ITS A FIJAYIDIN FUROR BOMBS BLEW BUSES AND BRAVE MEN TO SHREDS FAR APART THERE WAS ‘POKRAN IN PULWAMA’ AS BODIES CAME APART ITS ALL OVER TO ME AND OTHERS AS 44 MEN WERE LOST ALL OF A SUDDEN MY MAN IS DEAD, HOW LONG WILL I LAST ALAS TRAITORS IN THE COUNTRY DID IT IN THEIR MADNESS IN HATRED AND SPITE, HEARTLESS TERRORISTS KILL THIS COUNTRY HAS MANY HEROES ALL OF WHICH I BELIEVED THERE ARE MORE KILLERS THAN BROTHERS I AM NOW BELIED NEVER DID THEY TEACH IN SCHOOL, COUNTRYMEN KILL MY PLIGHT IS SAME, AS THAT OF MANY AS TIME STANDS STILL OH MOTHER INDIA, WHERE WILL I GO? AREN’T YOU MY MOTHER? TO WHOM SHALL I GO AND CRY? MY CHILDREN HAVE NO FATHER ALL OF US LOST OUR HUSBANDS, WILL THEY COME BACK EVER? LET MY COUNTRY PROMISE REVENGE FOR DAMAGE DONE TO ME. THAT’S THE LEAST MY COUNTRY CAN DO……..

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