{"id":3240,"date":"2025-09-10T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:53:02","slug":"silent-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/silent-whispers\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Whispers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are times when I hear silent whispers,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">The ones I\u2019ve never heard before.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">They utter things that instill in me fear and anxiety,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Making me uncomfortable<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">And shaking me to my core.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I try questioning them about their uncanny appearance,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">But each time I do \u2013<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">They ambush me and put me in a position far worse than before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But listen \u2013 beneath the silence, a voice softly calls,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">There is a slight hope that rises through the walls.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cYou are not alone, your pain can be heard,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Your life holds meaning, more than any word.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I look around and there is no one.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Where is this voice coming from?<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I close my eyes and hear this voice again.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">And this time I know \u2026 this voice is within me.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Deep down inside of me.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Striving hard to defeat the demons that trouble me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So I reach out my hand to the voice.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">It helps me to stay calm and strong, even through the noise.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">So when the silent whispers come again,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I will stand tall and not lose hope.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">I will not let myself be burdened by their weightage,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">And I will answer them back with strength and courage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">~ Nacia Britto (<em>St.Xavier&#8217;s College, Mapusa)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are times when I hear silent whispers, The ones I\u2019ve never heard before. They utter things that instill in me fear and anxiety, Making me uncomfortable And shaking me to my core. I try questioning them about their uncanny appearance, But each time I do \u2013 They ambush me and put me in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.navhindtimes.in\/kuriocity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}