{"id":255069,"date":"2025-01-12T00:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=255069"},"modified":"2025-01-12T00:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:30:32","slug":"poem-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/poem-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The shadow of who you were<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8212; By Pratima Pegu<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Class-11, D Ering Memorial GHSS, Pasighat<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh dearest child of hope and grace,<br \/>\nI see your dreams, your shining face.<br \/>\nYou built a world with trembling hands,<br \/>\nBut I let slip the golden sands.<\/p>\n<p>Your heart was strong, your spirit pure,<br \/>\nEach promise made, you meant for sure.<br \/>\nYet, here I stand with broken ties,<br \/>\nA mirror clouded, full of lies.<\/p>\n<p>I failed to carry what you gave,<br \/>\nOur parents&#8217; pride, a name to save.<br \/>\nI broke your heart, I broke it slow,<br \/>\nWith every step, I let us go.<\/p>\n<p>Forgive me child, for all I&#8217;ve done,<br \/>\nFor battles lost, for wars unwon.<br \/>\nPerhaps in stars, in skies that bend,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;Il find a world where wounds do mend.<\/p>\n<p>And there, I hope you laugh and run,<br \/>\nForever loved, embraced by sun.<br \/>\nBut here, I grieve with heavy breath<br \/>\nA life of loss, a quiet death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shadow of who you were &#8212; By Pratima Pegu Class-11, D Ering Memorial GHSS, Pasighat Oh dearest child of hope and grace, I see your dreams, your shining face. You built a world with trembling hands, But I let slip the golden sands. Your heart was strong, your spirit pure, Each promise made, you [&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-255069","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\/255069","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=255069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}