{"id":19558,"date":"2016-08-13T12:22:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19558"},"modified":"2016-08-14T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:36:41","slug":"the-scarlet-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-scarlet-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scarlet tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t recall the painfull tale, the scar was deeply embedded and left a story to tell.<\/p>\n<p>My emotional pain, was horizontally wrapped my whole being and for every untold story,<\/p>\n<p>I held back my tears.<\/p>\n<p>My body shakes in fear, the brutal shallow hole made by sharp object, tranquillized my lips.<\/p>\n<p>The rough sweeping stroke, we&#8217;re like edges of \u00a0blades and the soft skin, begun to bleed in mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Burning flesh, for every scourging I received, fourty times fourty slashes to be exact, it went through the skin.<\/p>\n<p>Deeper and deeper, the battered body will no longer heal.<\/p>\n<p>Overwhemingly, I suffered humiliation in front of people who condemn me to death.<\/p>\n<p>Tormented and broken, I endured the agony of what was like a martyrdom,<\/p>\n<p>Every veins in my body, bleeding uncontrollably and I was left,<\/p>\n<p>Naked and deliriously running a fever, in a dark cold room.<\/p>\n<p>My trembling body drained its strength and so worn out.<\/p>\n<p>Tears in my eyes ran dry and cuddled me gently to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>I screamed in my dreams, begging for freedom until,<\/p>\n<p>My voice hushed in silent,<\/p>\n<p>My verdict was final and I am finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t recall the painfull tale, the scar was deeply embedded and left a story to tell. My emotional pain, was horizontally wrapped my whole being and for every untold story, I held back my tears. My body shakes in fear, the brutal shallow hole&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":687,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,1136,441,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19558","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\/687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28945,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19558\/revisions\/28945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}