{"id":4599,"date":"2007-09-18T21:54:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/09\/silently-poem\/"},"modified":"2007-09-18T21:54:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T21:54:01","slug":"silently-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2007\/09\/silently-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Silently: a Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This is a poem from Sanjeev Kumar Punj.  Sanjeev works and lives in Sharjah.  He has allowed us to share this poem with the readers.  Please let him know what you think?  I personally loved it!  <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Silently the soul lifts off<br>Slithering away in the darkness<br>To find another haven<br>Another mother,another father<\/p>\n<p>And when it spies upon its parents<br>it silently slithers in between<br>unheard, unwelcomed,unseen<br>propelling a whole new scene<\/p>\n<p>A baby is born again today<br>and millions like it are born everyday<br>infinite are the numbers of souls<br>transmigrating from world to world everyday<\/p>\n<p>All they ever really seek<br>Is the comfort of a womb<br>Even that is shattered<br>By a surgeon\u2019s steel scalpel<\/p>\n<p>And cries of a newborn baby<br>fill the home of barren parents<br>who always prayed for a child<br>to make their own clone<\/p>\n<p>The soul has to accept it<br>irrespective of anything<br>this is one moment in time<br>where choice has no rhyme<\/p>\n<p>surrendering to itself within<br>the soul lies still<br>accepting graceful smiles<br>silently yet watchfully<\/p>\n<p>As it learns to trust<br>Its iron cot\u2019s legs rust<br>its diapers grow smaller<br>It begins to grow taller<\/p>\n<p>Reaching for the skies<br>beholding truth in its eyes<br>till some crazy relative<br>corrupts its relatively<\/p>\n<p>Then u have personalities<br>Which make up most of us<br>idiosyncracies galore<br>and life becomes a bore.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a poem from Sanjeev Kumar Punj.  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