{"id":40108,"date":"2017-08-06T00:43:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40108"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:43:24","slug":"i-hear-you-hour-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/i-hear-you-hour-12\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hear You (Hour 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I HEAR YOU<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t speak, precious one.<br \/>\nI hear your cry a thousand miles away,<br \/>\nthe silent tears strangling your throat, burning your eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Come, young or old, and lay your head in my arms.<br \/>\nMy lips against your cheek, as I have so often done in the past.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll hum a lullaby of sleep, my arms protecting you,<br \/>\nand comfort will embrace you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll ease your sorrows with love as Yahweh would want.<br \/>\nI may not be seen, but I see you.<br \/>\nI may not be heard, but I hear you.<br \/>\nAnd I will slay the demons haunting you.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Saskia Lynge \/ Hour 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I HEAR YOU Don&#8217;t speak, precious one. I hear your cry a thousand miles away, the silent tears strangling your throat, burning your eyes. Come, young or old, and lay your head in my arms. My lips against your cheek, as I have so often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,441,1],"tags":[2620,2390,2510,2622,2506,2619,2223,2621,2623,31,2448,2116,565],"class_list":["post-40108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-uncategorized","tag-comfort","tag-halfmarathon","tag-halfmarathonsuccess","tag-hear","tag-hour12","tag-ihearyou","tag-poetryhalfmarathon2017","tag-see","tag-slaydemons","tag-love","tag-lullaby","tag-poetrymarathon2017","tag-tears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40108","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\/812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40277,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40108\/revisions\/40277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}