{"id":45148,"date":"2014-07-28T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=45148"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:33:36","slug":"the-bullets-fell-in-love-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2014\/07\/the-bullets-fell-in-love-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bullets Fell in Love with You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You see now?<br \/>\nYou were so sweet<br \/>\nYou sent kisses to the world<br \/>\nWith your hot and wet lips<br \/>\nYou were so lovely that the bullets fell in love with you<br \/>\nThey wanted to know<br \/>\nHow much love<br \/>\nA Heart<br \/>\nAs big as your clenched fist<br \/>\nCould stand!<br \/>\nNow, open your eyes and tell me<br \/>\nDidn\u2019t you feel<br \/>\nThe pain of the shrapnel shells going into your tender skin.<br \/>\nTell me you didn\u2019t notice<br \/>\nThat We both were buried under the debris.<br \/>\nTell me that the rain of the bombs<br \/>\nWas not frightening at all<br \/>\nAnd if you don\u2019t like to say that<br \/>\nThen hide your face<br \/>\nBehind my scarf.<br \/>\nTell me you were not starving<br \/>\nYou didn\u2019t want hot bread and fresh milk<br \/>\nTell me they buried your doll next to you<br \/>\nAnd now you do not feel afraid of the darkness of the grave.<br \/>\nDon\u2019t be afraid my darling!<br \/>\nDon\u2019t be afraid!<br \/>\nI\u2019m here<br \/>\nA few steps away<br \/>\nBuried in a grave<br \/>\nWith the arms missing you.<br \/>\n____________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Maryam Youshizade<\/em><em> is M.A. in counseling psychology, journalist and writer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Translated by Nasim Banaei, MA in mass media and communication studies and a member of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tapnetwork.org\/\" >TRANSCEND: Art &amp; Peace Network<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You see now?<br \/>\nYou were so sweet<br \/>\nYou sent kisses to the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45148","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=45148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}