{"id":238,"date":"2021-05-23T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T14:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/?p=238"},"modified":"2021-05-23T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T14:55:03","slug":"a-poem-of-despair-in-these-gloomy-days-when-people-flee-their-homeland-only-to-embark-on-the-unwanted-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"A poem of Despair in these gloomy days when people flee their homeland only to embark on the unwanted land."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Date: unknown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I searched her eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Particles of an old sob<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rained on the floorboards<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the hostel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where the young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Refugee girl<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who fled from the Jungle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of a lorry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spent her first night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new dawn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the horizon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or so I thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acid rain which polluted my airways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Staring past me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A hollow look<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into the abyss of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A ruined courtyard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a village<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where its people<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spoke the language of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The town was soaked<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the hurricane<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of acid rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the girl slipped away<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the grip of hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: unknown I searched her eyes And Particles of an old sob Rained on the floorboards Of the hostel Where the young Refugee girl Who fled from the Jungle On top of a lorry&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rouhi-shafii.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}