Watch: Indian girl reaches out to Pakistani stranger with touching poem

When was the last time that we tried to know about those who living in Pakistan? This video of Shivani Gupta’s poem will move you and make you wonder about your neighbouring country.

The poem ‘Dear girl from Pakistan’ is dedicated to an unnamed girl from Pakistan. Gupta pours her heart out, as she tells how she would love to know a girl from Pakistan without any prior perceptions and notions.

Dear girl from Pakistan,

I know it has taken me 69 long years but I hope it is not too late for me to say,

Forget about what’s in the news,

Tell me, how was your day?”

These words are simple yet will leave an imprint on your heart. The way Gupta speaks is amazing and impactful. The poem is like a conversation that she is trying to have with a girl from other nation, whom she has never met before.

I know nothing about you except that we’re separated by a border not created by us

A bus goes from my country to yours

That’s how close we are

A bus goes from my country to yours

Empty

And that’s how far”

The poem highlights how people from both nations have hate feeling for eachother, without even knowing each other because of the past.

Gupta tries to ask the girl about her favourite songs or movie.

I’m sorry. I am sorry that without so much as a second thought,

I say the words your country and my side,

And all that’s left that is ours is a common divide,

I am sorry that even my pronouns are possessive,

Obsessive with a need to demarcate our partition,

I have a confession,

I wish I knew you better”

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