{"id":1170,"date":"2020-06-04T13:18:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aradhanamishra.com\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2020-06-04T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T07:48:45","slug":"dear-sapiens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aradhanamishra.in\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Dear Sapiens"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1170\" class=\"elementor elementor-1170\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4ec5a45e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4ec5a45e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6c43dea1\" data-id=\"6c43dea1\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2bb1ca8d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2bb1ca8d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BnQdX_0AEwg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">You climbed the mountains, you crossed the oceans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Sands of the desert flowed freely in your fist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">You patted your back to have conquered the world,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Friendly and tough, far and close, all in your list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">You conquered\u00a0 nature and reigned the planet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Or so you thought, ignoring the rest that made it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Not paying heed to the balance I cried for,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">As always, I had to intervene to give you a nudge just a tad bit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Though this time a little harsher than the other,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I sent a resilient warrior messenger, Covid you named.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">And change you did, calling the ways \u2018new normal\u2019,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Rejoicing in the glimmer of a snow-capped vision thus reclaimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1172 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/aradhanamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/covid-pic-1-300x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"62\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A river where the dolphins frolicked, a highway where the giraffes walked<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Fancy you felt, calling it \u2018nature reclaiming its space\u2019;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">But I stayed silent for I knew that your sordid greed had only paused<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For a tiny while, before it got back to the fore and onto the surface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Before you again befog the skylines with all that you call need<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">For power, for supremacy, for money, for convenience, for place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Before you again snatch away the space from my other claimants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Claiming your pre-eminence not only as a species but also as a caste, rank and race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Engulfed in the colossal sense of SELF, you shall rage a war,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Against your own kind, calling them DIFFERENT,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A warning, nevertheless, I must give you, I am yours, But NOT YOURS ONLY.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Do not be oblivious to the signs of this raging current.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Satiate your hunger, for that is the way of life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">but define your \u2018HUNGER\u2019 in a way that is just, else I shall come again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">With a retribution ever so inexorable, for your sins would surpass<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The threshold of forgiveness, and DEAR SAPIENS too late it shall be by then<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\n\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Copyright \u00a9 Aradhana Mishra<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Photo Credit #NCstateuniversity<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You climbed the mountains, you crossed the oceans Sands of the desert flowed freely in your fist. 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