{"id":1304,"date":"2018-09-20T11:43:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T18:00:23","slug":"ive-cried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2018\/09\/20\/ive-cried\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Cried"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve cried for angels to guide my soul when I felt so lost,<\/span><\/p>\n

For the saints of my namesake to warm me from the frost,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes I\u2019m so unsure if I\u2019m to be delivered home to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

Have I been forever cast aside by Heaven\u2019s gatekeepers too?<\/span><\/p>\n

I weep for sins of these warring hands that are my own,<\/span><\/p>\n

Saints of warriors lost I implore your saving hand be shown,<\/span><\/p>\n

The emptiness of night leaves me without embrace real or thought,<\/span><\/p>\n

Do I walk into battle with weapons drawn or should it not be fought?<\/span><\/p>\n

One thought after the other reach my lips to form a prayer,<\/span><\/p>\n

Sweet Lord of Mercy I plead that I will survive this combat scare,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each moment of extreme fear brings a vision of her smile to my eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an eternity since I fired my weapon in the horrid hope my enemy dies,<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve prayed prayers with the saddest intentions of man\u2019s heart,<\/span><\/p>\n

To pray that death finds another seems a worse sin in whole or part,<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m haunted now and forever will be since prayers allowed my return,<\/span><\/p>\n

Each enemy dead wasn\u2019t my mine yet it\u2019s our way for ribbons we earn,<\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt love brought me home as I too prayed for her,<\/span><\/p>\n

Am I watched over still or have my sins of war left little to offer,<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps the bad health is a manifestation of my past I must endure,<\/span><\/p>\n

A hundred years will not be enough to cleanse this man and leave pure,<\/span><\/p>\n

I cry too for my angel as she carries a burden of whom she married,<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is she punished too I\u2019ve cried, I realize the burdens she\u2019s carried,<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve walked with an angel for so long perhaps triumphant horns may blow,<\/span><\/p>\n

If salvation should come I have no doubt it will result from the angel I know,<\/span><\/p>\n

I cry to the angels aloud each night to guide me through,<\/span><\/p>\n

Tears will silently flow as nightmares of war sins continue,<\/span><\/p>\n

Weakness has overtaken my frame but I pray to again be strong,<\/span><\/p>\n

I must be where my angel of night is at rest, for with her, I do belong.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, by Pat. First four verses written in 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve cried for angels to guide my soul when I felt so lost, For the saints of my namesake to warm me from the frost, Sometimes I\u2019m so unsure if I\u2019m to be delivered home to you, Have I been forever cast aside by Heaven\u2019s gatekeepers too? I weep for sins of these warring hands […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}