Collective Resistance Poem by Mohammad Younus

If destroying the map of Kashmir would erase...
...the indelible blood marks of martyrs...
...and iconic landmarks of resistance...
...from the face of this holy land...
...I would say let us make a bonfire...
...of these new false maps drawn by the colonizers...
...to take our homeland and make us homeless;
Who will welcome the new settlers from the alien land!
I protest against this preposterous plan of colonisers...
...to change our demography, our Koshur language...
...our culture, ethos, and nationality;
It carries the dimensions of brutality and terror;
The most hideous nightmare anyone could imagine,
Do they want to empty our young eyes of the golden vision...
...about our future?
Each act of oppression might cultivate Collective resistance;
People will jump out of the sleeping bags, and collectively face...
...the oppression head-on;
To tear off the maps of occupation and subjugation...
...and rail against status quo and demonstrate,
Why resistance is necessary for coming out of existential crisis.

Mykoul