‘That’s When I Threw Stones’
(by Arshad Mushtaq)

When they tied barbed wire to my lover
That’s when I threw stones!
When they shattered my dream
That’s when I threw stones!
When they fired at the suckling baby
My blood rose to a boil
When they stuffed in a grave a hennaed groom
That’s when I threw stones!
When they torched a poor widow’s home
Saying, “Jai Hind”
Each time they honoured oppression
That’s when I threw stones!
When they left Lal Ded naked
On the banks of the Rambiar
When they killed Yousuf before Zooni’s eyes
That’s when I threw stones!
(poem via Arsilan Aziz; photo from ‘Children of the Kashmiri Intifada’ by Mary Scully, March 15, 2017:

https://www.maryscullyreports.com/children-of-the-kashmiri-intifada/