{"id":94386,"date":"2021-06-26T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=94386"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:16:27","slug":"empty-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/empty-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing rooted in shambles<\/p>\n<p>On the floor of my soul<\/p>\n<p>Deep into Oblivion and empty calmness<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts come and go<\/p>\n<p>Chastisement come and go<\/p>\n<p>But the guilt stays<\/p>\n<p>Tending to decay<\/p>\n<p>Causing us all to be soulless<\/p>\n<p>Lifeless, devoid of thoughts<\/p>\n<p>Expressionless, lacking feelings<\/p>\n<p>Losing vision and purpose<\/p>\n<p>But there in the deep empty silence<\/p>\n<p>Comes the invincible light<\/p>\n<p>That flickers at its first glance<\/p>\n<p>Then it iluminates the soul<\/p>\n<p>Spreading joy to the mind<\/p>\n<p>Without leaving out the body<\/p>\n<p>And the face gives a smile<\/p>\n<p>A smile of hope<\/p>\n<p>A smile of faith<\/p>\n<p>A smile that says<\/p>\n<p>My silence isn&#8217;t empty anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing rooted in shambles On the floor of my soul Deep into Oblivion and empty calmness Thoughts come and go Chastisement come and go But the guilt stays Tending to decay Causing us all to be soulless Lifeless, devoid of thoughts Expressionless, lacking feelings Losing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94386","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\/1361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94525,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94386\/revisions\/94525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}