{"id":308,"date":"2019-09-03T09:42:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onyx23.net\/beats\/?p=308"},"modified":"2019-09-03T09:42:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T09:42:34","slug":"the-blood-of-an-egyptian-princess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/09\/03\/the-blood-of-an-egyptian-princess\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blood of an Egyptian Princess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He rode up on a white horse at the stroke of midnight<br \/>Blinded by passion<br \/>She could feel her heart beat in his reflection<br \/>as he beamed glorious in her eyes<br \/>She could not move she stood completely still<br \/>Her blood boiled<br \/>Cause he was the only thing she wanted to feel<\/p>\n<p>She whispered his name<br \/>and upon her gilded cage<br \/>He said, I will do anything for you<br \/>He said all I want is for you to be free<br \/>I want to hold you forever<br \/>I want you to be with only me<br \/>I have dreamed of you every night<br \/>Of desolate my life<br \/>Please let me rescue you<br \/>Let me catch every tear that falls from your eyes<\/p>\n<p>Anything, anything<br \/>I will do for you but<br \/>I can not leave alone<br \/>And I can not leave you behind<br \/>I will suffer no more<br \/>Will you please catch my tears<br \/>As they fall to the floor<\/p>\n<p>As the night grew darker the rain began to fall<br \/>She shook her head in shame<br \/>And softly whispered no<br \/>Please leave for I will always love you<br \/>But I can not go<\/p>\n<p>He feel to his knees and screamed out her name<br \/>She said please my prince of his pyramids<br \/>The sun will always rise<br \/>And there will always be another day<br \/>The love we have is cursed and no one is to blame<\/p>\n<p>He raised his sword to the sky<br \/>And shouted her name one last time<br \/>Then my princess of these pyramids I will go<br \/>But I will leave not alone because your voice rings always in my mind<\/p>\n<p>He brought the sword down<br \/>And buried it deep within his heart<br \/>She fell to the ground in horror<br \/>He said only by death will we be truly apart<br \/>And as the rain washed his blood away<br \/>He took his last breath to say<br \/>In the glory of Egypt<br \/>In the glory of the sun<br \/>You will never forget me<br \/>And the damage you have done<br \/>Which is a curse, far worse<br \/>Than the forbidden love we had<br \/>He slowly bowed his head in eternal silence<br \/>As her soul now bleeds, eternally sad<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\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 allowing me to work on her poem.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He rode up on a white horse at the stroke of midnightBlinded by passionShe could feel her heart beat in his reflectionas he beamed glorious in her eyesShe could not<a href=\"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/2019\/09\/03\/the-blood-of-an-egyptian-princess\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Blood of an Egyptian Princess<\/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-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onyx23.net\/inthebeat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}