Kashmir

Paper

Inhale, 

Piloting through mingled dreams

a body turning into paper

rising, skin mingling with space

floating, thoughts and arms and hands and fingers

a climber lacing onto the blue

a world inversed, head to toe, toe to head

I'm sailing downwards, upwards, sideways, 

painting an invisible canvas with chaos

kashmir in reverse, words 

on mute and people laughing

in vain like veins, shooting,

bloody but frozen from the wars

kashmir in reverse, desert

underwater, slowly rising,

arms swaying like fire,

Exhale, 

you're back.