{"id":16840,"date":"2025-08-06T14:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiaticinsights.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2025-08-06T14:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T14:02:35","slug":"blurred-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/?p=16840","title":{"rendered":"Blurred Visions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting to see the sunset ,<\/p>\n<p>As the day comes to an end ,<\/p>\n<p>Hearing the murmur of the ocean,<\/p>\n<p>Near-sightedness arresting my distant vision,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uninformed it dawned on me<\/p>\n<p>Has the lustre of my brilliance vanished?<\/p>\n<p>People around me faceless,<\/p>\n<p>Seeing only myself,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Others all spurious sights,<\/p>\n<p>Never seeing motherless baby\u2019s grief,<\/p>\n<p>Damsels entangled in vulture\u2019s talons<\/p>\n<p>Feminity being traded in the street,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My dry eyes evade poor luckless chaps.<\/p>\n<p>Treading upon sprouting grass,<\/p>\n<p>Failing to hear its heart throb,<\/p>\n<p>Never turning back, here I go<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Placing remote mentors<\/p>\n<p>That moulded me in my ride.<\/p>\n<p>Steps treaded forgotten<\/p>\n<p>Never tolerant to look back<\/p>\n<p>Moving fast in bold assertion<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the wayside sights, never pausing,<\/p>\n<p>Turning my back on the long lost<\/p>\n<p>Traveller going weary,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many a star swivels round me<\/p>\n<p>Ere I move my orbit from them,<\/p>\n<p>Hearing though many a song<\/p>\n<p>Never waiting to see their source,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inner eye too gets blurred<\/p>\n<p>To see the amethysts of wisdom,<\/p>\n<p>Let my sight rest in and around me<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere in my fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Student: Alfred Shaji Mekkadan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting to see the sunset , As the day comes to an end , Hearing the murmur of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civilityculturecompass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}