{"id":9285,"date":"2012-06-29T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T19:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2019-08-11T14:34:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T11:34:32","slug":"little-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/2012\/06\/little-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We present you a poem from Rosa Bino, a member of old Chechen diaspora in Jordan.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Little Soldier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What happened to that child?<br \/>\nWhy do I see a reflection of a broken happiness deep in this child&#8217;s eyes?<br \/>\nWar is painted all over his little body,<br \/>\nFear is drown on his angelic face,<br \/>\nSeeing fireworks makes him run and hide&#8230;<br \/>\nThey wake the nightmare he had to live,<br \/>\nBack then when booming became his lullaby.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once a friend gave him a toy gun&#8230;<br \/>\nHe was so stunned,<br \/>\nHe thought to himself:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is the toy which took my daddy away,<br \/>\nThis is the toy which made mommy weep every day,<br \/>\nThis is the toy which ruined the play ground where me and my friends used to play&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His friend didn&#8217;t understand that look in his eyes,<br \/>\nThat look which held those dark memory images<br \/>\nThat settled deep in these eyes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This little soldier,<br \/>\nThis little boy is sleepless every single night,<br \/>\nMonsters slowly crawl to his mind reminding him of what he left behind&#8230;<br \/>\nMillions of question marks attack him:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Who am I and where do I stand?<br \/>\nWhen did I stop and fall like the last tear drop?<br \/>\nWhen did I become who I am today?<br \/>\nWhen did autumn become my sunny may?<br \/>\nHow did I find shelter in this cold lonely winter?<br \/>\nWhy do I feel so empty and hollow inside?&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This little boy is no longer a child,<br \/>\nThis child is a little soldier!<br \/>\nHe sits and watches the view of sun set<br \/>\nThinking of the day when he&#8217;ll go back and<br \/>\nPlay hide and seek with those men and their scary guns,<br \/>\nBut this time his mommy wont stop him<br \/>\nAnd she&#8217;ll let him stay,<br \/>\nThis time,<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll be chasing them for the stolen childhood!<br \/>\nThis little soldier is only three and one day he will set<br \/>\n<strong>Chechnya FREE!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Rosa BINO<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We present you a poem from Rosa Bino, a member of old Chechen diaspora in Jordan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems"],"views":2412,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12263,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions\/12263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waynakh.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}