In this song
Is Kashmir, with Raoof
Is Anantnag, with smiling people
Is the river behind his house
Is the Dal, with Karim
it rings with laughter and dreams.
Is my childhood, with my brothers
and open fields that are now
inundated with development.
Is the death of a singer
and many singers
shot for life and living
by the wielder of death.
Is that flat in Vidyanagar
remember we cried and laughed
shared the lightest and darkest
drink.
My love, i cannot find you
i have searched in smells
i have searched in colours of green
and looked for you in your similars
perhaps i lost my way
in the many crossroads
But in this song
i find traces of you
traces of the happiness
in the intoxicating past.
And i will listen
till i am drunk
with melancholy.
In this song
is the loss
changing life itself.
I’ll find you
my love
in reflections
maybe you gave us this
to find our way.