Innocence Behind Bars

Lurking behind the bars He ,time and again remembers the day The day when he was woken from his warm bed With a gun pointed at his temple Startled, he heard the screams of his wife from his bedside Ruthlessly pushed down and dragged through the stairs Rolled mercilessly into a military van That was the last day ,he heard his wife… her shrieking cries Still after so many years, he does not know why this happened to him They told him that someone informed them that he was a terrorist While the truth was that he wasn’t aware of anything He just knew, to live a simple life with his wife and family Snatched from his nest , he lurks in a cold bed No hopes left, since now he knows That no one knows about his whereabouts His kids and family are not even aware Whether he is dead or alive He has been now officially listed in ‘missing persons’ list His dreams snatched from his eyes Innocence lurks behind the bars And on the other side A wife waits and hopelessly waits for her missing husband Note…my place Kashmir has witnessed unrest for two decades now…innocent people were taken from their beds and branded as terrorists by government agencies…most of the arrests had no paper work so there was no record of their arrests so no one knows where they are…though most of them were killed in custody and then buried in mass graves ,some of them may still be lurking in some unknown jails..The wife’s of such person’s are known as ‘Half widows’ here …hundreds of such half widows are waiting for their husbands…