{"id":50281,"date":"2019-06-22T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=50281"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:59:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T22:59:54","slug":"youve-got-me-walking-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/youve-got-me-walking-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Got Me Walking On Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><a href=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/autumnsonlyone\/tenth-hour\/\">Tenth Hour<\/a><\/pre>\n<h2><strong>You&#8217;ve Got Me Walking On Fire! \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<pre>I awake in the silent darkness of night.\r\nI hear and feel things,\r\nfrom which most would take flight.\r\nI don't have a friend nor a helpmate in sight.\r\nI must face the solemn torment and\r\nharsh reality of my plight. \u00a0\r\n\r\nYou've got me walking on fire,\r\nI can't sleep at night!\r\nYou've got me burning in ire,\r\nthey're after my life!\r\n\r\nYou've got me walking through fire!\r\nwith pain sharp as a knife,\r\nI don't know if you are with me, LORD,\r\nbut I am dying inside.\r\nIn this deadly strife,\r\nI'm walking on fire,\r\nuntil this torment subsides.\r\n\r\nYou have been with me,\r\nevery moment of my prime,\r\nbut, what I have seen, LORD, LORD!\r\nThere is no reason - no rhyme.\r\nI'm living in pure horror,\r\nthese are the worst of times,\r\n\r\nI can't reach hope for fear is blocking \r\nmy contact with the divine.\r\nI've come too far to turn around,\r\nMy feet are standing on shaky ground.\r\n\r\nNothing I explain seems sane or sound,\r\nIf I should scream from fright,\r\nI would be seized and bound.\r\n\r\nYou've got me walking on fire!\r\nYou've got me burning in fire!\r\nThey are after my life!\r\nYou've got me walking in fire!\r\nThe pain stabs like a knife!\r\n\r\nYou've got me where I can't escape.\r\nPlease, have mercy Abba Father!\r\nIn your hands you hold my fate.\r\n\r\nYou said, \"When the enemy\r\ncomes in like a flood\r\nyou'd raise a standard against them.\"\r\nI don't see the standard,\r\nBaruch Ha Shem.\r\n\r\nDo you see they are\u00a0\r\nspreading themselves like\r\na green bay tree\r\nlaughing, mocking you...\r\nMocking me.\r\n\r\nHow I long to see them learn\r\nhow powerful you are\r\nand that they will surely burn...\r\n\"The Fire Next time,\"\r\n(James Baldwin).\r\n\r\nCompton, CA 90222\r\nJune 22, 2019@15:48<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenth Hour You&#8217;ve Got Me Walking On Fire! \u00a0\u00a0 I awake in the silent darkness of night. I hear and feel things, from which most would take flight. I don&#8217;t have a friend nor a helpmate in sight. I must face the solemn torment and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2114,1135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-testimonials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50281","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\/1186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50281"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59650,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50281\/revisions\/59650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}