{"id":115325,"date":"2022-06-25T19:23:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115325"},"modified":"2022-06-25T19:23:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:23:15","slug":"captor-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/captor-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Captor of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days that&#8217;ve passed us by<br \/>\nNo one to retrieve a tear we&#8217;ve already cried<br \/>\nTry as we might, scars never heal<br \/>\nForever is trapped in jaws of steel<\/p>\n<p>Caged behind bars of doubt<br \/>\nFrom within the body watches the soul without<br \/>\nCaptured by his own hand<br \/>\nTime holds fast to its hourglass of sand<\/p>\n<p>Food for the soul is dipped with a dirty spoon<br \/>\nA spider emerges from a black cocoon<br \/>\nThe viper lies in a crib where the baby sleeps<br \/>\nI heard a curdling cry no mind conceives<\/p>\n<p>Can you see from the mountain tops now?<br \/>\nHow we&#8217;ve come so far, where one step is so far down<br \/>\nA prince sets on a throne without a crown<br \/>\nBehind his eyes are skeletons walking around<\/p>\n<p>Craddled between the arms of loving her<br \/>\nThe mind is concealed from the thoughts that were<br \/>\nWhile the wounds drip drops of blood<br \/>\nSeeping through the cracks where once was love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gone are the days that&#8217;ve passed us by No one to retrieve a tear we&#8217;ve already cried Try as we might, scars never heal Forever is trapped in jaws of steel Caged behind bars of doubt From within the body watches the soul without Captured&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115350,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115325\/revisions\/115350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}