{"id":212009,"date":"2022-05-23T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=212009"},"modified":"2022-05-19T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T09:12:01","slug":"ode-to-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/05\/ode-to-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>19 May 2022 &#8211; <em>Poem written at the passing on of my beloved brother Niresh Manilall in South Africa.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dark dreary winter has set in.<br \/>\nSummer has come and gone.<br \/>\nNothing is pleasant anymore.<br \/>\nThis is a kind of madness.<br \/>\nSomething I have never felt before!<\/p>\n<p>There are no reminders of joy.<br \/>\nNo beauty to admire.<br \/>\nAll has withered and died.<br \/>\nJust like you.<\/p>\n<p>So suddenly!<br \/>\nMelancholy covers me like a blanket.<br \/>\nSorrow follows me like a shadow.<br \/>\nRestless like a \u00a0tormenting flame.<br \/>\nGrief is my constant companion,<br \/>\nCrawling back, I call out your name.<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no answer.<br \/>\nNo more laughter,<br \/>\nOnly the sound of tears a moment after.<br \/>\nWill this misery end?<br \/>\nWho will know?<br \/>\nHow could he go?<br \/>\nIt\u2019s only grief that I know.<\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186568\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Usha-Roopnarain-e1623990401501.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Dr Usha Roopnarain \u2013 Former parliamentarian in the National Assembly of South Africa, social activist and passionate about human rights and gender equality.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem written at the passing on of my beloved brother Niresh  Manilall in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1142,868],"class_list":["post-212009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-obituary","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212009","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=212009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}