Home-
Where the crocuses bloom
Fields of mauve with a heart of saffron.
This realm of mine
Caressed me, smothered me, didn’t let me breathe.
Home-
Where the sunset paints
Distant mountaintops in fiery shades.
My life was on fire too
Warm and seductive; reducing me to embers.
Home-
Where the chinar leaves
Twirl gracefully after letting go the brough.
Did I dance
When I had to flee; dangers I could not face.
Home-
Were icy waters
Skip gleefully over well rounded rocks.
I live my life
Haunted by the life I should have led.
Home-
Where the Jhelum flows
Red with all the blood we have spilled.
I long to return
To the paradise my heart never left.
