{"id":177143,"date":"2021-01-25T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=177143"},"modified":"2021-01-22T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T07:17:10","slug":"we-fell-asleep-in-one-world-and-woke-up-in-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/01\/we-fell-asleep-in-one-world-and-woke-up-in-another\/","title":{"rendered":"We Fell Asleep in One World and Woke Up in Another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We fell asleep in one world, and woke up in another.<br \/>\nSuddenly Disney is out of magic,<br \/>\nParis is no longer romantic,<br \/>\nNew York doesn&#8217;t stand up anymore,<br \/>\nthe Chinese wall is no longer a fortress, and Mecca is empty.<br \/>\nHugs &amp; kisses suddenly become weapons, and not visiting parents &amp; friends becomes an act of love.<br \/>\nSuddenly you realise that power, beauty &amp; money are worthless, and can&#8217;t get you the<br \/>\noxygen you&#8217;re fighting for.<br \/>\nThe world continues its life and it is beautiful. It only puts humans in cages.<br \/>\nI think it&#8217;s sending us a message:<br \/>\n&#8220;You are not necessary.<br \/>\nThe air, earth, water and sky without you are fine.<br \/>\nWhen you come back, remember that you are my guests.<br \/>\nNot my masters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Haroon on the <\/em>Galaxy TV News<em> link notes that his poem is about preserving earth, <\/em>&#8220;if there will be no planet, then there will be no you&#8230; all the humans out here, stand with and for truth, that makes us human and when we will become true human, then only we will be true to earth.&#8221; <em>The poem is mentioned in other blogs too including one by Oprah Winfrey written while she was recovering from Covid-19 recently. See links:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nonkilling.org\/center?mailpoet_router&amp;endpoint=track&amp;action=click&amp;data=WyIxODAiLCIxNWZkYTNlM2wyMXc4Y3cwc3cwNDhrY3cwd2N3b3NvNCIsIjgiLCJlOGQyYjI4YzI0M2MiLGZhbHNlXQ\" >https:\/\/www.oprahmag.com\/life\/health\/a32937155\/oprah-quarantine-lessons-2020\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nonkilling.org\/center?mailpoet_router&amp;endpoint=track&amp;action=click&amp;data=WyIxODAiLCIxNWZkYTNlM2wyMXc4Y3cwc3cwNDhrY3cwd2N3b3NvNCIsIjgiLCIxYjcxY2VmN2U4OTAiLGZhbHNlXQ\" >https:\/\/www.galaxyun.tv\/we-fell-asleep-in-one-world-and-woke-up-in-another-author-haroon-rashid-clears-the-air\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nonkilling.org\/center?mailpoet_router&amp;endpoint=track&amp;action=click&amp;data=WyIxODAiLCIxNWZkYTNlM2wyMXc4Y3cwc3cwNDhrY3cwd2N3b3NvNCIsIjgiLCJmZmU1Njk0ZmJlNmEiLGZhbHNlXQ\" >https:\/\/safreachronicle.co.za\/haroon-rashid\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We fell asleep in one world, and woke up in another.<br \/>\nSuddenly Disney is out of magic,<br \/>\nParis is no longer romantic,<br \/>\nNew York doesn&#8217;t stand up anymore,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1829,1868,868],"class_list":["post-177143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}