{"id":96826,"date":"2021-06-26T20:25:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=96826"},"modified":"2021-06-26T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:25:35","slug":"mercy-show-mercy-from-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/mercy-show-mercy-from-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy &#8211;Show Mercy from Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> Mercy &#8211;Show Mercy from Within<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mercy, let it flow from you<\/p>\n<p>Let it flow from within<\/p>\n<p>Deal mercifully with me, and with you \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, with them, and with us<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Forget not goodness and tender mercy<\/p>\n<p>Do you know any that couldn\u2019t use some mercy?<\/p>\n<p>If you be rich, and so think<\/p>\n<p>That, \u201cThis mercy thing \u2013not a need for it<\/p>\n<p>Money can take care of it, whatever I need\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wait till the unwanted strike<\/p>\n<p>(and they strike, just when is what\u2019s unknown)<\/p>\n<p>And money doesn\u2019t smile with you, e\u2019en though you may have it<\/p>\n<p>The mercy you\u2019ll seek with bitter tears<\/p>\n<p>Cannot be purchased with your golden pocket<\/p>\n<p>Have mercy, show mercy, it\u2019s an investment for you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Power &#8211;do you know any with power till the end?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s none in all the children of Adam and Eve<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s for a season and a time<\/p>\n<p>It soon fades even before you fade<\/p>\n<p>Let it not intoxicate; it\u2019s only a guest, it\u2019ll leave<\/p>\n<p>Ask those who\u2019ve had it massively before<\/p>\n<p>Have mercy, you\u2019ll need mercy, so give it, \u00a0you\u2019ll be glad you do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercy &#8211;Show Mercy from Within &nbsp; Mercy, let it flow from you Let it flow from within Deal mercifully with me, and with you \u2013 Indeed, with them, and with us &nbsp; Forget not goodness and tender mercy Do you know any that couldn\u2019t use&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96826","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\/96826","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\/3490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97241,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96826\/revisions\/97241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}