{"id":938,"date":"2016-02-29T00:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T06:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=938"},"modified":"2016-03-07T00:16:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T06:16:06","slug":"a-creature-roars-written-in-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2016\/02\/29\/a-creature-roars-written-in-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"A Creature Roars (Written in 1969)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dark moments are only dark because we don’t allow the light,<\/span><\/p>\n

When anguish fills my heart I look for the angel shining bright,<\/span><\/p>\n

Twas you I saw no doubt as ever so gently you calmed my soul,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart became interlaced with a thousand needles of control,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Love is like water from a failing dam as it forces its way inside,<\/span><\/p>\n

Of this it is true for without you how many nights have I cried,<\/span><\/p>\n

And now I am here in a place so dark I wonder has the sun died,<\/span><\/p>\n

My existence won’t be lost to you but to others I will be denied,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I’ve worried so intensely of you the pigment has left the black,<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I understand the meaning of falling through (into) the crack,<\/span><\/p>\n

Somehow I feel your earthly presence even when under attack,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart so desires my will to be strong enough to make it back,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I’ve heard too many teenagers cry for mama as he passed away,<\/span><\/p>\n

One held a picture to his chest along with a Dear John he got today,<\/span><\/p>\n

I saw his teardrops start to fall and offered my hand to quietly pray,<\/span><\/p>\n

A Beast of Darkness roams the jungle tonight, his feast is in the fray,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As the lifeblood drains from the maimed he will raise his ugly head,<\/span><\/p>\n

When sunshine pushes darkness from the sky the beast has likely fled,<\/span><\/p>\n

Angel guardians of ‘prayers answered’ whisper peace into my head,<\/span><\/p>\n

Without those prayers I would be one of the early morning dead,<\/span><\/p>\n

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Birds will land upon the unseen bodies missed by his fellow men,<\/span><\/p>\n

Keeping vigil until the soldier’s body is found by his countrymen,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a reminder that once we’ve departed we are but empty skin,<\/span><\/p>\n

I held a dream in my arms one night, I can’t believe this hell I’m in,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A creature roars or has the beast cried because there is no more?<\/span><\/p>\n

The sun brings a new beginning they say but many ask “what for?”<\/span><\/p>\n

Those with a negative nature think what next disaster is in store,<\/span><\/p>\n

And I wonder how long it’s been since the time I knew as before,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I have no innocence of youth hidden safely away for my return,<\/span><\/p>\n

Innocence and Santa’s remains are buried beneath napalm’s burn,<\/span><\/p>\n

Napalm burns away more than life and has scarred me internally,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday I sifted through napalm’s ash in search of remnants of me,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Machine gun fire has awakened me from a quick escape to you,<\/span><\/p>\n

I held you briefly in my arms and whispered of my love so true,<\/span><\/p>\n

Tears have once again filled my eyes in a lonely tribute of love,<\/span><\/p>\n

Know my angel of Texas dreams, you are the only one I dream of.<\/span><\/p>\n

The end. For Patti 1969<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dark moments are only dark because we don’t allow the light, When anguish fills my heart I look for the angel shining bright, Twas you I saw no doubt as ever so gently you calmed my soul, My heart became interlaced with a thousand needles of control,   Love is like water from a failing […]<\/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":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}