{"id":1052,"date":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/torment-of-a-sleepless-night\/"},"modified":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T00:00:00","slug":"torment-of-a-sleepless-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/torment-of-a-sleepless-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Torment Of A Sleepless Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is 2:00 A.M. and I am worked up like a soldier in a combat<br \/>\nOr a fish that has been just netted,<br \/>\nThe night has bared my wounds,<br \/>\nWhich lay hidden under the covers of day\u2019s distractions and inhibitions.<\/p>\n<p>The layers of my sleep lie disheveled,<br \/>\nThe axis of mind perturbed,<br \/>\nMemories of her have drilled through my armor,<br \/>\nThe torture of sleeplessness is close to putting me to sleep forever.<\/p>\n<p>Night has laid a premeditated siege on my sleep,<br \/>\nI have tossed and turned to the utter misery of my bed,<br \/>\nThe glass of water beckons me to take its succor,<br \/>\nThe lights in the room want to come on to help.<\/p>\n<p>In frustration I jump out of the bed,<br \/>\nOut of the house, onto the lawn,<br \/>\nWhere I see deer sleeping in graceful tranquility &#8211;<br \/>\nA scene of mesmerizing beauty.<\/p>\n<p>I curse my fate that I have to bleed,<br \/>\nWhile nature at large is celebrating its bliss,<br \/>\nWhy is human love fraught with so much pain? &#8211;<br \/>\nAlbeit a beautiful pain.<\/p>\n<p>I return to my bed,<br \/>\nSnuggle the pillow, cover myself with the sheets,<br \/>\nAsking for God\u2019s mercy,<br \/> hoping for the relief of a natural sleep,<br \/>\nAnd wondering if she is awake too in the pain of our love.<\/p>\n<p>Suffern, New York, 9.25.10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is 2:00 A.M. and I am worked up like a soldier in a combat Or a fish that has been just netted, The night has bared my wounds, Which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poems"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stagingserver3.com\/Maharaj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}