{"id":3378,"date":"2025-04-27T08:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T08:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2025-04-27T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T08:30:15","slug":"when-the-paradise-weeps-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/when-the-paradise-weeps-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Paradise Weeps :. Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\r\n    <div class=\"custom-author-box\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/img-20250427-wa00057270128959410911134.jpg\" alt=\"Author Image\">\r\n        <span class=\"author-name\">Showkat Shah<\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <style>\r\n        .custom-author-box {\r\n            display: flex;\r\n            align-items: center;\r\n            position: relative;\r\n            width: 250px; \/* Set the total width of the author box *\/\r\n            margin-top: 20px;\r\n            margin-bottom: 10px;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        .custom-author-box img {\r\n            width: 70px; \/* Set the image width *\/\r\n            height: 70px; \/* Set the image height *\/\r\n            border-radius: 50%;\r\n            object-fit: cover;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        .custom-author-box .author-name {\r\n            position: absolute;\r\n            left: 80px; \/* Adjust if the image width changes *\/\r\n            top: 50%;\r\n            transform: translateY(-50%);\r\n            font-size: 16px;\r\n            font-weight: bold;\r\n            color: #fff;\r\n            background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);\r\n            padding: 5px 10px;\r\n            border-radius: 12px;\r\n            white-space: nowrap;\r\n            text-overflow: ellipsis;\r\n            overflow: hidden;\r\n            max-width: calc(100% - 50px); \/* Ensures it doesn't overflow *\/\r\n            width: auto; \/* Allows width to adjust automatically *\/\r\n            display: inline-block; \/* Ensures it only takes necessary space *\/\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>\r\n\r\n    \n\n\n\n<p>They came to us clothed in the innocence of peace,<br \/>bearing trust cupped gently in their trembling hands;<br \/>but the answer that met them was death\u2014<br \/>not from us,<br \/>but from the shadow that haunts our valley,<br \/>the hand that cannot bear our happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I cried, but my cries vanished into the mountains;<br \/>the river, swollen with sorrow, carried my pain away.<br \/>We have lived through storms for decades ,<br \/>but today the darkness swallowed even memory,<br \/>and grief moved into every home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My homeland is broken;<br \/>not by time or weather,<br \/>but by hands that have forgotten every meaning of mercy.<br \/>Now the merciless bullets speak where saints once prayed,<br \/>and violence has drowned our inherent language of compassion.<br \/>Terror has no faith, no boundary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>its shadow poisons every land,<br \/>leaves every heart trembling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chinar drips with sorrow,<br \/>the wind brings only the ache of loss. <br \/>blood, once sacred as prayer,<br \/>spilled more freely than water<br \/>on the ground that was once my refuge.<br \/>How can I weep when my eyes have become tearless\u2014<br \/>when sorrow has hollowed me so completely<br \/>that even my tears have forgotten the way out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Kashmir, once a cradle of welcome,<br \/>now lies silent,<br \/>words are empty<br \/>and lakes reflect nothing but grief.<br \/>From the dust of my ancestors,<br \/>all I can offer is a broken prayer, <br \/>let this not be the only story the world remembers of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please, give me back my paradise,<br \/>the home that has become a hell.<br \/>Give me back the valley where kindness lived,<br \/>where every heart was open,<br \/>where hope still dared to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can I forget the era<br \/>before the darkness claimed us,<br \/>when we lived with open doors<br \/>and gentle hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May we hold to the light that remains,<br \/>and in each other,<br \/>find the courage to choose mercy.<br \/>Let us pray we become whole again.<br \/>And in our tears\u2014<br \/>may the earth be softened<br \/>for hope to take root once more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They came to us clothed in the innocence of peace,bearing trust cupped gently in their trembling hands;but the answer that met them was death\u2014not from us,but from the shadow that haunts our valley,the hand that cannot bear our happiness. 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