{"id":424,"date":"2012-08-19T11:55:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T11:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/?p=424"},"modified":"2018-01-21T03:21:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T03:21:44","slug":"shadow-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/19\/shadow-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this about a year back and found it recently under some old uncatalogued text files. I still wonder why I never came to put it up.<\/em><\/p>\n

Its night, a decent one at that
\nAnd i am sitting by the water
\nThere’s a shadow under my feet
\nAnd its shining bright tonight<\/p>\n

There’s a reflection that bubbles up
\nAnd slowly dies away
\nJust when i try to catch it
\nPlayfully it withers from me
\n
\nFinally i catch it and am surprised
\nIts none but me that i find staring
\nAt me, and no other could it be
\nI turn away, but for a moment,
\nAnd look back into those eyes<\/p>\n

They tell a story
\nA story of anguish
\nA story of delight
\nAnd much thats not known<\/p>\n

It questions this world
\nAnd those who make it
\nIt questions who win
\nAnd if they deserve it
\nIt ridicules those who cant think
\nOn why they can be led
\nIt is surprised at the world
\nFor its becoming<\/p>\n

Again i see something bubbling up
\nIts the eyes this time, not water
\nAnd inside those eyes there’s fire
\nA fire that wants to destroy<\/p>\n

Destroy those who dont have a right
\nA right to exist or live
\nAnd yet it fights within
\nOn whether it has the right to judge rights<\/p>\n

No matter what the answer maybe
\nNone has the right
\nOver a human life
\nAnd thats what aint so bright
\nFor many people but to let go
\nIs a bit of fright
\nAnd hence they lock and hide
\nWhat should be set aside<\/p>\n

The fire dazzles and there’s a face within
\nA face i know but too well
\nFor its a face connected to whom i love
\nAnd yet there’s only hatred that will dwell<\/p>\n

For someone who creates , but joy
\nFor someone who despairs and pushes it on
\nFor someone who gets what he does not deserve
\nAnd yet there’s a cover that he dons
\nOn what he cannot give and yet he expects
\nWithout shame and fear, of destiny and of love<\/p>\n

And one day, when the time comes
\nHe would be left beyond
\nFor it is destiny that follows us
\nAnd we who follow destiny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wrote this about a year back and found it recently under some old uncatalogued text files. I still wonder why I never came to put it up. Its night, a decent one at that And i am sitting by the water There’s a shadow under my feet And its shining bright tonight There’s a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[74,232,285,410,473,657,710,870,1038,1077,1206,1318,1410,1452,1453,1616,1640,1710,1773,1785,1992,2043,2140],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-anguish","tag-brilliant","tag-catch","tag-correct","tag-delight","tag-eyes","tag-fire","tag-happy","tag-judge","tag-lake","tag-me","tag-night","tag-people","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-right","tag-sad","tag-shadow","tag-society","tag-sorrow","tag-trouble","tag-valid","tag-wrong"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwbDR-6Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}