{"id":43636,"date":"2021-09-23T13:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T13:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.85.16.36\/124-17-en\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T21:22:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:22:17","slug":"124-17-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/124-17-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Our graves cry for the killers \/ A poem by Elias Alavi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>That the killers are crying over our graves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And their screams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>It confuses our mothers&#8217; fuss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>They are sitting on top of the towers, with a sharp camera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>They are following all the details.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Growing up in &#8220;Deobandi&#8221; schools.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Until the bomb was strapped to his back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And he\/she\/it sighed heavily.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>In the hidden alleys of &#8220;Dasht-e Barchi&#8221; neighborhood..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Wonder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Running.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Fear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Running.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>These are the tools of intoxication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And if it&#8217;s hidden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Shivon is looking for something.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Drying feet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And then silence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Heavy silence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>At night, they come down from the towers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The flowers have made the house a sad place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>They suddenly turn on the TV.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>The great leaders awaken the nobility of peace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>And in the Security Council, they raise their hands higher&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>You see.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Eiffel Tower<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Burj Khalifa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Freedom Tower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>They have turned off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&#8220;To our burnt bodies&#8217; joy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>They cry on our graves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Killers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>On our grave.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThey are laughing so joyfully!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That the killers are crying over our graves. And their screams. It confuses our mothers&#8217; fuss. They are sitting on top of the towers, with a sharp camera. They are following all the details. Growing up in &#8220;Deobandi&#8221; schools. Until the bomb was strapped to his back. And he\/she\/it sighed heavily. In the hidden alleys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5433],"tags":[51110,52108,52109,50173,50159,45317,50146],"class_list":["post-43636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-afghanistan","tag-elias-alavi","tag-number-124","tag-poetry","tag-50159","tag-45317","tag----2"],"acf":[],"views":23,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43637,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43636\/revisions\/43637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peace-mark.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}