{"id":3580,"date":"2025-05-13T03:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T03:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2025-05-13T04:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T04:48:06","slug":"soldiers-silence-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/soldiers-silence-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers silence: Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\r\n    <div class=\"custom-author-box\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/images-63164589796306856766.jpg\" alt=\"Author Image\">\r\n        <span class=\"author-name\">Javid H Beigh<\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    <style>\r\n        .custom-author-box {\r\n            display: flex;\r\n            align-items: center;\r\n            position: relative;\r\n            width: 250px; \/* Set the total width of the author box *\/\r\n            margin-top: 20px;\r\n            margin-bottom: 10px;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        .custom-author-box img {\r\n            width: 70px; \/* Set the image width *\/\r\n            height: 70px; \/* Set the image height *\/\r\n            border-radius: 50%;\r\n            object-fit: cover;\r\n        }\r\n\r\n        .custom-author-box .author-name {\r\n            position: absolute;\r\n            left: 80px; \/* Adjust if the image width changes *\/\r\n            top: 50%;\r\n            transform: translateY(-50%);\r\n            font-size: 16px;\r\n            font-weight: bold;\r\n            color: #fff;\r\n            background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);\r\n            padding: 5px 10px;\r\n            border-radius: 12px;\r\n            white-space: nowrap;\r\n            text-overflow: ellipsis;\r\n            overflow: hidden;\r\n            max-width: calc(100% - 50px); \/* Ensures it doesn't overflow *\/\r\n            width: auto; \/* Allows width to adjust automatically *\/\r\n            display: inline-block; \/* Ensures it only takes necessary space *\/\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>\r\n\r\n    \n\n\n\n<p>My enemy&#8230;. <br \/>the unknown soldier<br \/>from the land beside my own\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I strike,<br \/>or you strike me,<br \/>in this far-off, godless place,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>would you tell me your name?<br \/>And hers\u2014<br \/>your mother\u2019s.<br \/>The name she speaks<br \/>when no one else is listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How feard is she now?<br>What did she say<br>when you departed\u2014<br>leaving her small and silent<br>in the doorway<br>that no longer opens to peace?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you remind her<br \/>to take her medicine on time,<br \/>to leave the light burning through the night,<br \/>to play the old songs<br \/>when the dark becomes too heavy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you lie\u2014<br \/>and promise you\u2019d return unharmed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For you are a soldier,<br \/>and in a nation that sanctifies war,<br \/>even mothers<br \/>are not permitted<br \/>to pray for their sons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your lips began to move\u2014<br \/>a story rose like smoke<br \/>between us, fragile,<br \/>nearly spoken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But then\u2014<br \/>the officer called:<br \/>Fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I obeyed.<br \/>I shot you.<br \/>Dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you could speak<br \/>a single word<br \/>about your mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now\u2014<br \/>I shall never know her name.<br \/>I longed to kneel in humble grace,<br \/>And gaze once more upon her face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfulfilled remained my yearning deep,<br \/>To bow before her, her pardon to seek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Poet \/Author is MLA Baramulla) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My enemy&#8230;. the unknown soldierfrom the land beside my own\u2014 Before I strike,or you strike me,in this far-off, godless place, would you tell me your name?And hers\u2014your mother\u2019s.The name she speakswhen no one else is listening. 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