{"id":215363,"date":"2022-06-20T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=215363"},"modified":"2022-06-18T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-18T03:08:09","slug":"paroxysm-of-petty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/06\/paroxysm-of-petty\/","title":{"rendered":"Paroxysm of Petty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You thought your words could break me.<br \/>\nYou thought no one will see!<br \/>\nYou hid behind malicious words.<br \/>\nYou tried to tie me with your evil cords.<br \/>\nLike a dense entangled forest.<br \/>\nFilled with decay!<br \/>\nUsing spiteful words<br \/>\nAnd only pretend to pray!!!<br \/>\nSpewing venom and flaunting hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Continue with your stalking.<br \/>\nContinue with your hate.<br \/>\nYou act so sacred.<br \/>\nYou try to torture me with doses of venom.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect you are in a place of darkness<br \/>\nDo you know the syncopations of grief?<br \/>\nDid you feel the shock of it all?<br \/>\nDoes your anguish\u00a0 defy any relief?<\/p>\n<p>You just have piercing joy with bitter gall.<br \/>\nPenning words of hurt and cruelty<br \/>\nParagons of hatred,waiting for me to fall.<br \/>\nGo into your prison of hatred and hide.<br \/>\nYour words are only pitiful \u00a0lies !<br \/>\nThere is no art to clarify.<br \/>\nOnly pride<br \/>\nYour crime of stalking, intimidation<br \/>\nFalse communication, aggravation<br \/>\nWill end soon\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Karma will meet you<br \/>\nGod\u2019s truth will pursue you.<br \/>\nI will still write<br \/>\nEven through the darkest night.<br \/>\nYour words are meaningless.<br \/>\nI will speak through words<br \/>\nWith all my might.<br \/>\nForever I will write.<br \/>\nEven through the murmuring night.<\/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>You thought your words could break me.<br \/>\nYou thought no one will see!<br \/>\nYou hid behind malicious words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":115817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[868],"class_list":["post-215363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215363","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=215363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}