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Where Snow Weeps Crimson
Snow falls silently here
On Pahalgam's mourning hills
Pure crystal white turned red
White flakes bear witness to loss
Each one holds a mother's tear
Snow remembers all
Innocent faces frozen
In time's bitter glass
Terror's footprints disappear
Yet snow preserves the sorrow
Through snow-capped valleys
Echoes of children's laughter
Now deadly quiet
Snow tries to blanket the pain
Cannot hide the crimson stains
Branches bow with snow
Weight of grief upon their backs
Nature's silent dirge
Mountains weep in frozen streams
Snow transforms to rivers red
Snow once danced in light
Now falls heavy with despair
Upon holy ground
Each flake a prayer unanswered
Snow enshrouds the empty streets
Snow sparkles, mocking
Joy has fled these valleys deep
Terror reigns supreme
White powder becomes the shroud
For dreams that died too early
Through blinding snowstorms
Truth cannot remain hidden
Justice calls aloud
Snow melts, returns, eternal
Like hope that refuses death
Orphaned children play
Making angels in fresh snow
Unaware of loss
Snow falls gently on their heads
Protecting what innocence remains
Spring will come again
Snow gives way to blooming flowers
Life persists through pain
Mountains keep their vigil still
Snow guards every precious name
In crystalline tears
Snow preserves each memory
Of lives cut too short
No snowfall can purify
This deed so dark and heinous
Yet snow continues
Falling soft on Pahalgam
Nature's quiet hymn
Truth, like snow, shall overcome
Justice waits beneath the white
“In memory of the innocent lives lost to terrorism in Kashmir's Pahalgam”
Copyright ©
Dr. Padmashree R P
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