{"id":51829,"date":"2019-06-22T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=51829"},"modified":"2019-06-22T18:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T22:05:34","slug":"7-the-silence-screams-so-much-more-than-i-ever-could","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/7-the-silence-screams-so-much-more-than-i-ever-could\/","title":{"rendered":"7. The Silence Screams so Much More Than I Ever Could"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it was all I could do not to sound<br \/>\nThe coming years of torment<br \/>\nI knew was in bound<br \/>\nCause I knew the sound<br \/>\nI&#8217;d heard it before<br \/>\nIn the subtle rows<br \/>\nBeyond the fields of forgotten<\/p>\n<p>I dwelled there for long too long<br \/>\nTreading light on your darkened waters<br \/>\nSought out the better times<br \/>\nWhen I lost sight of the better days<br \/>\nFollowed by the terrible nights after, that followed your voyage<\/p>\n<p>And you<br \/>\nWound up the ties that bound<br \/>\nOur fragile frames<br \/>\nLooking to tie up the moments should I capture them<br \/>\nIf only for awhile<br \/>\nTo the ship you sailed away on for ten days and four years after<\/p>\n<p>Where were you when<br \/>\nHe called your name<br \/>\nAnd your spirit left<br \/>\nDid you forget your dress<br \/>\nWas still white<br \/>\nBefore your heart spilled me<br \/>\nOut on to the night<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s all I can do now, not to go back to that place<br \/>\nAnd damn your name<br \/>\nCause I knew then, like I know now<br \/>\nYou did it because it&#8217;s just your way<br \/>\nForgetting the world for your while<br \/>\nA moment of knowing better<br \/>\nBut not giving a damn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it was all I could do not to sound The coming years of torment I knew was in bound Cause I knew the sound I&#8217;d heard it before In the subtle rows Beyond the fields of forgotten I dwelled there for long too long&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51829","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52006,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51829\/revisions\/52006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}