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……..
Copyright © Mothiram Pushpala | Year Posted 2020
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