{"id":287,"date":"2020-05-09T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2020-05-09T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T14:32:10","slug":"five-inch-window-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Five inch window to nowhere&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> #smartphoneaddiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh you five inch window,<br \/>Smart phone thy name;<br \/>Post your insidious arrival,<br \/>World will never be the same..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the beginning you are an enigma,<br \/>Like a harmless placebo pill;<br \/>Until this realization dawns<br \/>That you are a disease that can kill\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slowly creeping through my life and time,<br \/>You possess my very soul\u2026<br \/>Harnessing my weak will,<br \/>And utter lack of self control;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to seeking attention<br>You are worse than a cranky child..<br>Turning people either into zombies,<br>Or turning on their instincts wild..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You beckon me oh so often,<br \/>To peep through your fallacious worldview;<br \/>In all my naveite, I don\\&#8217;t perceive that<br \/>Your spells have long cast a curfew..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My leisure and family time<br \/>Have gone for a toss;<br \/>Doubts, if any left are quickly dispelled,<br \/>It\\&#8217;s evident here, who is the boss..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\\&#8217;s not that I have not tried,<br \/>To overcome your persuasive streak;<br \/>But everytime I sense your absence,<br \/>You transform me into a mindless freak\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your honourable company, in my life<br \/>Is a pretty costly bargain;<br \/>Fondling you greedily in my hands,<br \/>I treat my loved ones with complete disdain!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I keep staring through your deceptive window,<br \/>Like a clueless robot<br \/>Searching, seeking, scrolling in vain<br \/>Often forgetting what I sought\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You hold a promise of liberation,<br>But you are just a mirage..<br>You give me wings to fly , and then<br>imprison me in your invisible cage..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your screen has just brightness<br \/>But you have no wisdom of light at all..<br \/>It\\&#8217;s all just a deceptive allusion<br \/>Until darkness and depression befall..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It takes great wisdom and will<br \/>To just shut you down!<br \/>Before you enslave me,<br \/>in form of addiction full-blown..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, you five-inch treacherous window<br \/>Don\\&#8217;t you dare\u2026.<br \/>To tempt me with your vision again,<br \/>For I know, you lead me nowhere\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#smartphoneaddiction Oh you five inch window,Smart phone thy name;Post your insidious arrival,World will never be the same.. In the beginning you are an enigma,Like a harmless placebo pill;Until this realization dawnsThat you are a disease that can kill\u2026 Slowly creeping through my life and time,You possess my very soul\u2026Harnessing my weak will,And utter lack of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soumyabharathi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}