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Dear #Kashmir, a thread;
My love, how are you? Like the narcissist I am about to unload all about myself. I have now been up for 46 hours consecutively. My eyes don't burn as much. I think my tears finally ran out. My hair still falls though. I had a McChicken, fries and a [1/?]
My love, how are you? Like the narcissist I am about to unload all about myself. I have now been up for 46 hours consecutively. My eyes don't burn as much. I think my tears finally ran out. My hair still falls though. I had a McChicken, fries and a [1/?]
hotpocket. It's the only meal I had in a good 36 hours. I think apart from losing hair I have lost weight. I can fit in my skinny leather pants and come up and see you. I can't though, can I? Today India's PM, the zealot, sure you know him. He received 'The Order of Zayed' [2/?]
The country that's educated me, made me who I am, honoured a man that is trying to wipe your identity off the planet by making it a version he fancies. Is there anything wrong with you Kashmir? Nahin meri jaan, you are absolutely perfect in every which way. Your admirers [3/?]
are far and wide. They have wanted you for a better part of a century. Except they want a different version of you. They don't want me to be part of you, Kashmir. What they don't understand is, Kashmiris, I are saplings that are tethered so taught, are bond strengthens [4/?]
with distance. I last saw you in a different life, walked your tufted, heavenly plains in a time where light that your sun emitted was different. My skin felt a rejuvenation no spa treatment on this planet could match. My feet hovered over your earth in the early mornings [5/?]
I don't see that light anymore. My life has been filtered through sepia. Just like the winter in GOT, my life's reel is monochromatic. I miss colour, orange being my favourite. Do you remember Badi Mama's house? How she planted those orange trumpet lilies? Of course you do [6/?]
Those trumpet lilies hold my childhood. They hold the Khushi that people don't really know. Do you know Kashmir, two nice ladies DM'd me on insta last night. They said I was brave and beautiful. I wish I could bring them to you, they'd know what transcendent beauty is. [7/?]
Maybe someday I will show you off to the world. The people who I have managed to keep friends in my lifetime, I want them to see you. Share your basking glory so that they can share a piece of me and you. Kashmir, they are keeping your wrapped in rusty barbed wire right now [8/?
What you don't know there's been people all over the world trying to free you from those cold shackles. Colorado,WHITE HOUSE,Philadelphia,NYC,Michigan,Ontario,Toronto,London,
Nottingham,Birmingham,Delhi (Some nice Indians) Bangalore, Australia, Pakistan, Paris,Italy Finland [9/?]
Nottingham,Birmingham,Delhi (Some nice Indians) Bangalore, Australia, Pakistan, Paris,Italy Finland [9/?]
Sweden, Germany, Norway, Turkey, Iran, Chicago and many more. They all stood up for you Kashmir. Logon ney chadar philakar pyaar banta! One day, we'll repay them in our way. For now accept my apologies, for I live in a country that didn't stand up for you. Maaf kar dey [10/10]
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