{"id":3622,"date":"2018-08-16T02:53:03","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T02:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2018-08-16T02:53:03","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T02:53:03","slug":"cost-of-forgetting-by-sunil-sharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/cost-of-forgetting-by-sunil-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of forgetting by Sunil Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3624 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cost-of-Forgetting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cost-of-Forgetting.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Cost-of-Forgetting-300x169.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 560px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 560\/315;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cost of forgetting<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Sunil Sharma<\/p>\n<p>If you <em>methodically<\/em> dismantle<br \/>\nmemories of&#8212;<br \/>\nbeings<br \/>\nnames<br \/>\nplaces<br \/>\npast<br \/>\ncommunity<\/p>\n<p>with a swift movement<\/p>\n<p>a time comes when you are<br \/>\ndismembered by the selfsame process&#8212;<br \/>\na yawning chasm<\/p>\n<p>then<br \/>\nbeing becomes a remote blur<br \/>\non the horizon&#8212; pale-bluish-orange-dark<\/p>\n<p>slipping into an amber sea<br \/>\nof fire-breathing monsters<br \/>\nhungry for crumbs of memories<br \/>\ndripping away in their flight<br \/>\ninto the forest of dementia<\/p>\n<p>on such nights<br \/>\nburnt-out, scary<br \/>\nliving becomes walking dead<br \/>\nand the region gets dissolved<\/p>\n<p>finally&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>wiped away quickly<br \/>\nby rushing fogs<\/p>\n<p>or stiff days<br \/>\nshrouded<br \/>\nby storms.<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nSunil Sharma is a college principal, freelance journalist, author and editor. Mumbai-based, he has published 19 books&#8212;solo and joint. His prose and poetry have appeared in many places in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Sharma is a college principal, freelance journalist, author and editor. Mumbai-based, he has published 19 books&#8212;solo and joint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirational-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}