{"id":176745,"date":"2021-11-14T00:53:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=176745"},"modified":"2021-11-14T00:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T19:23:47","slug":"poem-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/11\/14\/poem-57\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>If I had been Vikram Batra<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kr. Shreesh Shiji Kumar<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Cl-X, VKV Nirjuli<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If I had been Vikram Batra<br \/>\nI would protect my nation just as he did<br \/>\nNot as in a return of Param Vir Chakra<br \/>\nBut as my duty for the country<\/p>\n<p>I do it not for fame or for name<br \/>\nBut for my people who shouldn&#8217;t sleep in flame<br \/>\nI would be proud to even die if that prevails<br \/>\nBecause some goals are so worthy it\u2019s glorious to fail<\/p>\n<p>I would be holding a gun and not a cape<br \/>\nAs not all superheroes wear capes<br \/>\nI will have only one regret in my duty<br \/>\nThat I have only one life to serve my country<\/p>\n<p>Some men don\u2019t need umbrellas<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t even fear the bullets passing their heads<br \/>\nWhat in comparison is snow and rain<br \/>\nIf that man can\u2019t even catch a cold in vain<\/p>\n<p>Some want to enjoy their freedom<br \/>\nBut only a mere few bother to defend that freedom<br \/>\nOur flags fly high not because the wind moves it<br \/>\nIt flies high with the sacrificing breath of each soldier who died protecting it<\/p>\n<p>They devote their hearts and souls for their country<br \/>\nLeaving their family and loved ones behind for the motive<br \/>\nHow much do we know about who are protecting us?<br \/>\nHow much do we value their devotion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had been Vikram Batra &nbsp; Kr. Shreesh Shiji Kumar Cl-X, VKV Nirjuli If I had been Vikram Batra I would protect my nation just as he did Not as in a return of Param Vir Chakra But as my duty for the country I do it not for fame or for name But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-176745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-spark"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}