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Poem 12<\/strong><\/p>\n I Am<\/strong><\/p>\n The universe hides under my skin Stars in my eyes Royalty Chained but never broken<\/p>\n I stand because of their strength and virtue<\/p>\n Their Spirituality too a seed that grows within me Sometimes colliding with uncertainty And when there’s no will to rise Poem 12 I Am The universe hides under my skin But the secret leaks out It can’t be contained Stars in my eyes heart of gold smile like a rainbow Hair like cotton Black as pitch Sappodilla coloured skin sweet inside and out Ancestors,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973","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\/719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43764,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40973\/revisions\/43764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBut the secret leaks out
\nIt can’t be contained<\/p>\n
\nheart of gold
\nsmile like a rainbow
\nHair like cotton
\nBlack as pitch
\nSappodilla coloured skin
\nsweet inside and out
\nAncestors, they fuel my path
\nThe echo
\nReminding me there’s still much to do<\/p>\n
\nLoyalty<\/p>\n
\nWith every thought and memory that becomes me
\nI am renewed with each tick that sounds, never the same, evolution in motion<\/p>\n
\nI pause
\nI fall I cry
\nI scream<\/p>\n
\nStories unfold
\nIn ways too surreal to be anything other than signs from corridors of unspoken worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"