{"id":216,"date":"2022-04-05T19:49:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/17-2\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2022-04-25T05:17:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:17:44","slug":"hiraeth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/poetry\/hiraeth\/","title":{"rendered":"HIRAETH"},"content":{"rendered":"
Aritrika Roy<\/h5>\n
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I come from the lands where all is forgotten.<\/div>\n
I seek answers to the moss-covered questions.<\/div>\n
I have come a long way looking for you.<\/div>\n
I passed through an abyss just to share the light with you.<\/div>\n
The earth seems hollow at times.<\/div>\n
Dense and dark are all that one could find.<\/div>\n
The craters seem to swallow me,<\/div>\n
But do they know I don\u2019t surrender so easily?<\/div>\n
You shine bright like a beacon.<\/div>\n
Guiding everyone who has lost his power of reason.<\/div>\n
I wondered if you are the line at the end of the race,<\/div>\n
But was startled to find out you were never there in the first place.<\/div>\n
Your radiance is enough to penetrate through the darkness.<\/div>\n
The eternal glow that warms up cold nights like a furnace.<\/div>\n
Your burning embers make me crave for you even more,<\/div>\n
But how do I find the key to your forbidden door?<\/div>\n
Your presence is sacred.<\/div>\n
Enough to turn belief into hatred.<\/div>\n
If it is only by a touch that we are separated,<\/div>\n
Please come to me for I have been defeated.<\/div>\n
I shall never find the answers to the questions I seek.<\/div>\n
Suddenly everything feels so dull and meek.<\/div>\n
Knowing you were there, I wanted to win so bad.<\/div>\n
Now, with all the lights off, I don\u2019t even possess the sanity to be mad.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Aritrika Roy I come from the lands where all is forgotten. I seek answers to the moss-covered questions. I have come a long way looking for you. I passed through an abyss just to share the light with you. The earth seems hollow at times. Dense and dark are all that one could find. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"parent":17,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/17-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}