[Reader-list] India frozen in LeT instigated stone!

[A.K. Malik]

Hi Arifi,
          Which Indian??????????

(A.K.MALIK)


--- On Fri, 7/2/10, Wali Arifi <waliarifi3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Wali Arifi <waliarifi3 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] India frozen in LeT instigated stone!
> To: "Sarai" <reader-list at sarai.net>
> Date: Friday, July 2, 2010, 10:57 AM
> Now that every Kashmiri is an LeT
> instigated stone pelter, Chidhabaram now
> gets a song from the street. Here is for those Indians...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> A Stone Pelter’s Song
> 
> BY FEROZ RATHER
> 
> 
> 
> Out of the last cries
> 
> Of my fellows, those boys
> 
> Killed on street yesterday,
> 
> Out of the sky and the summer rains
> 
> In my own eyes,
> 
> In my own voice,
> 
> I compose a song of freedom
> 
> 
> Out of these stones,
> 
> Forged in the brooks of Jhelum,
> 
> These gifts from the Mountain,
> 
> Tearing the air apart
> 
> In fury, with jubilation,
> 
> Ah! Here I hit their backs,
> 
> I exist in these stones,
> 
> I don’t need to tell them,
> 
> I compose a song of freedom
> 
> 
> Out of my own blood and brain,
> 
> Smearing my dead face,
> 
> Out of a vow of
> 
> A mother’s love for her son,
> 
> Against the dagger of Abraham
> 
> When God ceases to be an assassin,
> 
> Out of the triumph of truth
> 
> Rises a song of celebration,
> 
> I live a song of freedom
> 
> 
> Out of the rebels’ chants,
> 
> Against their bullets,
> 
> Against the shells and the smoke of death,
> 
> Out of these slogans
> 
> Sung in unison,
> 
> These songs of defiance and anger,
> 
> I’m my own poet, a majnoon
> 
> Of this country, an unfailing lover,
> 
> I’m a stone pelter
> 
> I sing a song of freedom.
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