{"id":16221,"date":"2026-04-05T18:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T16:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=16221"},"modified":"2026-04-08T18:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:17:13","slug":"poem-by-ibrar-sami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=16221","title":{"rendered":"poem by Ibrar Sami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cry of the Shadow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terror.<\/p>\n<p>A locked room.<\/p>\n<p>Sealed doors.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Silence.<\/p>\n<p>On the wall\u2014<\/p>\n<p>a beast<\/p>\n<p>watching.<\/p>\n<p>Outside,<\/p>\n<p>the world<\/p>\n<p>ends without announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Locusts.<\/p>\n<p>One breath\u2014<\/p>\n<p>a thousand years gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Evening burns.<\/p>\n<p>The city sleeps<\/p>\n<p>on broken roads.<\/p>\n<p>Inside my chest<\/p>\n<p>a shadow cries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Masks fall.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom rots.<\/p>\n<p>At death\u2019s edge<\/p>\n<p>hands search for hunger\u2019s light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Walls mourn.<\/p>\n<p>Streets bleed.<\/p>\n<p>I stay awake\u2014<\/p>\n<p>while the city dies in sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cry of the Shadow. &nbsp; Terror. A locked room. Sealed doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1872,77],"tags":[1873,1123,1875],"class_list":["post-16221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egophobia-89-90","category-english","tag-egophobia-89-90","tag-english","tag-ibrar-sami"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DakB-4dD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16222,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions\/16222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}