Salute the Martyrs

Kashmir Martyrs’ Week they say,

salute the martyrs I say.

Who were the martyrs, I ask

Is martyrdom a child’s task.

Lemme tell you how a child became a martyr

a martyr he never thought to be.

Ask the mother who lost her son

who wasn’t yet even in high school.

Beaten black & blue by men

supposed  to be ‘security forces’.

Came out of house with a bat in hand

aimed to emulate the cricketers at large.

Little did he know that they were on prowl

chased him to death without regret.

A kid just 9 years old tiny tot

it would be insane to call him a threat.

A threat to the law, to the order,

for which the people at helm, kill and slaughter.

Killed the kids & murdered the youth,

slaughtered the young, maimed the old.

Is this the law, is this the order,

is this the peace we aim to conquer?