{"id":290,"date":"2019-08-16T22:04:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onyx23.net\/beats\/?p=290"},"modified":"2019-08-16T22:04:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T22:04:31","slug":"can-you-hear-my-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/08\/16\/can-you-hear-my-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Hear My Scream?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So many problems without solutions as I wade in the ocean of life<br \/>Inside they haunt me, they keep holding me down<br \/>I struggle to get up, but I know only you can make this right<br \/>But with each wave I only find myself beaten back down<br \/>Buried back in the sand, down on the ground<br \/>I push and I pull and I struggle with the beast within<br \/>And all that I have lost, slipped away<br \/>And I kick and I push and I beg<br \/>Waiting for you to throw me a line to pull me in<br \/>But as the tide rises I am dragged further and further away<br \/>A blurred image you now have become<br \/>Is this going to be my last memory of you as I fold my hands together and pray<br \/>As you stand on the shore of my life<br \/>You watch me drown, I scream out to you<br \/>Please do not let me suffer in my own misery in the darkness of this night<br \/>I am too old, too cold<br \/>Neither right nor wrong<br \/>My life will unfold<br \/>I am falling into a pain that I can never escape<br \/>As you stand there and watch me die, I finally rest in peace<br \/>Can anyone hear, hear me at all<br \/>Alone drowning in my own blood, can anyone hear my screams?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This poem is a part of The Collaboration Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thanks to Shannon Wendler for helping me finish this poem.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many problems without solutions as I wade in the ocean of lifeInside they haunt me, they keep holding me downI struggle to get up, but I know only you<a href=\"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/08\/16\/can-you-hear-my-scream\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can You Hear My Scream?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}