{"id":1906,"date":"2020-12-16T21:56:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinvolvement.wordpress.com\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:56:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:56:03","slug":"come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2020\/12\/16\/come\/","title":{"rendered":"COME\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By: Nyokabi Ng&#8217;ang&#8217;a (Leshnyokabi@gmail.com)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thumbnail photo courtesy of desiringgod.org<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bring them who haven&#8217;t lost their voices amid the noises of our cities<br>Bring them who still maintained dignity after the war passed<br>Bring them who had no name but acquired one on their exit<br>Bring them who still chose their names after their nations broke<br>Bring them who didn&#8217;t forget where they came and where they belonged<br>Bring them who still have a remembrance of the peaceful nights and the deserted days<br>Bring them who could smell the roses and distinguish them from the lilies<br>Bring them who could differentiate spices of the known fields<br>Bring them who knew and maintained a love<br>Bring them who forgot hate and kept hope alive<br>Bring them whose feet are tired from walking the mileage<br>Bring them who know masala tea and serve it from their genial hearts<br>Bring them whose dances were not watered away as the rains fell<br>Bring them whose smiles light our hearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bring them who lost their voices amid the noises of our cities<br>Bring them who broke away from their dignified lives as our war spread<br>Bring them who had names as they became entrants<br>Bring them who forgot their names after their nations broke<br>Bring them who forgot where they came from and where they belonged<br>Bring them who forgot the peaceful nights and the deserted days<br>Bring them who cannot distinguish the scent of roses from lilies<br>Bring them who can&#8217;t differentiate spices of the known fields<br>Bring them who forgot and didn&#8217;t maintain love<br>Bring them who remembered hate and kept anxiety alive<br>Bring them whose feet are still wandering as they mile away<br>Bring them who forgot to serve masala tea from their genial hearts<br>Bring them whose dances were watered away as the rains fell<br>Bring them whose frowns remind our hearts\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bring them!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Nyokabi Ng&#8217;ang&#8217;a (Leshnyokabi@gmail.com) Thumbnail photo courtesy of desiringgod.org Bring them who haven&#8217;t lost their voices amid the noises of our citiesBring them who still maintained dignity after the war passedBring them who had no name but acquired one on their exitBring them who still chose their names after their nations brokeBring them who didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,62,46],"tags":[88,44,7,45],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-fiction","category-poems","tag-god","tag-inspirational","tag-love","tag-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}