{"id":293,"date":"2023-03-29T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/?page_id=293"},"modified":"2023-04-04T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T01:45:06","slug":"a-planet-too-far","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/our-poetry\/a-planet-too-far","title":{"rendered":"A Planet Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is a world beyond our reach,<br>A planet in the vastness of space,<br>Where conflict reigns and souls beseech,<br>For peace to come and take its place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A planet too far, yet close in mind,<br>Where lives are lost and tears are shed,<br>Where hatred rules and love is blind,<br>And hope seems but a fleeting thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this planet, war is king,<br>And violence rules with iron hand,<br>As bombs rain down and sirens sing,<br>The people of this world must stand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But how to stand against such might,<br>Against the weapons of war and death,<br>How to turn darkness into light,<br>And bring back hope with every breath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For on this planet too far away,<br>Lies a lesson for us all to learn,<br>That conflict only leads astray,<br>And peace is what we must yearn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So let us strive for unity,<br>And stand together as one,<br>And from this conflict we will see,<br>A new world that has just begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For in the end, it is clear,<br>That a planet too far is not so different from here,<br>And the peace we seek is not so far,<br>If we hold hands and reach for the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Mani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a world beyond our reach,A planet in the vastness of space,Where conflict reigns and souls beseech,For peace to come and take its place. A planet too far, yet close in mind,Where lives are lost and tears are shed,Where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/our-poetry\/a-planet-too-far\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-293","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}