{"id":254756,"date":"2025-01-05T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=254756"},"modified":"2025-01-05T01:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T19:30:04","slug":"amidst-the-sea-of-faces-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/amidst-the-sea-of-faces-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Amidst the Sea of Faces (POEM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Mige Kambu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ph.D Scholar, Dept of Political Science, RGU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wanders my mind through the city\u2019s busy street<br \/>\nSeeking solace in the crowded meet<br \/>\nA million strange faces, carrying its own tale,<br \/>\nI search for comfort, in their soothing gale.<br \/>\nOnly noise and ruffle in them I find<br \/>\nFace full of pride, proves they&#8217;re unkind<br \/>\nThe faces blur, a kaleidoscope spin,<br \/>\nLeaving me in thoughts to perfectly win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I try to find a gentle caring hand,<br \/>\nA listening ear, in this ungrateful land.<br \/>\nBut every voice, a distant hum,<br \/>\nFades into silence, when I\u2019ve come.<br \/>\nThen, in the stillness, I begin to see,<br \/>\nSolace wasn\u2019t out there, but in me.<br \/>\nA refuge from life\u2019s turbulent tide,<br \/>\nA space within for peace to reside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I close my eyes and breathe in the air,<br \/>\nAnd find the calm I\u2019d sought elsewhere.<br \/>\nMy heart, a sanctuary, pure and true,<br \/>\nA place where peace and love shine through.<br \/>\nIn this stillness, I am free,<br \/>\nAway from the crowd I feel pure glee<br \/>\nThe crowd\u2019s din fades, as I descend,<br \/>\nInto the silence, where love transcend.<\/p>\n<p>For solace was never in the crowd\u2019s embrace<br \/>\nBut in the quite depth of my own holy space<br \/>\nI am the heaven I\u2019ve sought to find,<br \/>\nA space where I found my peace of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mige Kambu Ph.D Scholar, Dept of Political Science, RGU Wanders my mind through the city\u2019s busy street Seeking solace in the crowded meet A million strange faces, carrying its own tale, I search for comfort, in their soothing gale. Only noise and ruffle in them I find Face full of pride, proves they&#8217;re unkind [&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-254756","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\/254756","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=254756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}