{"id":383,"date":"2021-07-18T02:23:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T20:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/?p=383"},"modified":"2021-07-18T02:38:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T20:38:24","slug":"loved-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/loved-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Loved Ones \u0965 Saba Khandakar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Innocent Child<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nShe was just an innocent child,<br \/>\nYet a demon controlled her tiny brain.<br \/>\nThose thoughts were never mild,<br \/>\nBut ignorance is bliss,<br \/>\nHence, she was still sane.<br \/>\nYears went by,<br \/>\nThe demon kept growing and growing,<br \/>\nShe started to lose her sanity,<br \/>\nThe once bright girl now dark with anxiety!<br \/>\nShe is drowning in the cold blue sea,<br \/>\nThere is nothing you can do you see,<br \/>\nAs now, she&#8217;s convinced she&#8217;s a disgrace to society,<br \/>\nSo she fights with all her might to not give into this tenebrosity.<br \/>\nOh how she wished those thoughts would stop,<br \/>\nPerhaps, a gun to the head,<br \/>\nOr, smashing the skull instead,<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s no use, the demon will always be on top.<br \/>\nNo more of those blue pills to swallow,<br \/>\nNo more instructions to follow,<br \/>\nShe has completely lost her mind!<br \/>\nScreaming for help but I guess everyone is blind.<br \/>\nShe was just an innocent child,<br \/>\nAnd this is the story of how she lost her mind.<br \/>\nShe fought this lifelong battle all by herself,<br \/>\nIf only they listened, the better it would&#8217;ve been,<br \/>\nOh well, I guess the devil always wins.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Loved Ones\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m about to rip out all my hair,<br \/>\nSet fire to the sheets with no care,<br \/>\nThat lump in my throat but no tears,<br \/>\nThey say: &#8220;Think about your loved ones, dear!&#8221;<br \/>\nWhen I&#8217;m so disgusted by my own flesh,<br \/>\nBlades on broken skin so fresh,<br \/>\nStaring at the noose, the end is near,<br \/>\nJust then the voices say: &#8220;Think about your loved ones, dear!&#8221;<br \/>\nLoved ones you say?<br \/>\nThey matter the most; for them I am fighting this battle,<br \/>\nWalking barefoot, on roads fragile like eggshells,<br \/>\n&#8220;Stay Strong!&#8221; I tell myself and pray.<br \/>\nYet, as days go by,<br \/>\nThey leave one by one.<br \/>\nEven my first comrade now says goodbye.<br \/>\nAlready in pain but this is just salt on wounds.<br \/>\nThat lump in my throat stays,<br \/>\nThis time with an unbearable ache in my heart.<br \/>\nTears all dried up, trying to smile in different ways,<br \/>\nSo they don&#8217;t see the pain I feel,<br \/>\nAnd may say farewell unhurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innocent Child She was just an innocent child, Yet a demon controlled her tiny brain. Those thoughts were never mild, But ignorance is bliss, Hence, she was still sane. Years &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,1],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorspicks","category-poetry","tag-saba-khandakar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chintasutra.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}