Phulwama Dilemma

Happiness writ large on their faces

On their way back from vacation 

Recharged to face any battles.

Driving through picturesque landscape

Smell of deodars and pine forests

Filling all their senses

Whoever anticipated their journey

Would end in mass graves

And we continue to debate whether

Cricket should be played

With a terrorist state 

Isn't the answer plain and simple?

And after all the hullabaloo is over

Warring parties are playing in Manchester 

Proving politics and sports don't 

Support each other...or are the stakes

Too high to give up the offer?