{"id":2013,"date":"2019-08-15T10:06:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:11","slug":"night-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2019\/08\/15\/night-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_2011\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Moon-and-Clouds.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Moon-and-Clouds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2011\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Sandra Reddish<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Night Terror<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>tears<br \/>\nheld back<br \/>\nkept<br \/>\nfrom flowing<\/p>\n<p>pain<br \/>\nanguish<br \/>\nfear<\/p>\n<p>why<br \/>\nwhy me<br \/>\nwhy<\/p>\n<p>salty liquid<br \/>\nhangs on to<br \/>\njet black lashes<br \/>\nunsure what to do<\/p>\n<p>body trembles<br \/>\nuncontrollably<br \/>\nshudder<br \/>\nrestraint<\/p>\n<p>why<br \/>\nwhy me<br \/>\nwhy<\/p>\n<p>a memory falls<br \/>\nin each drop<br \/>\nbut it does not<br \/>\ndisappear<\/p>\n<p>agony<br \/>\ntorment<br \/>\ndespair<\/p>\n<p>why<br \/>\nwhy me<br \/>\nwhy<\/p>\n<p>silent suffering<br \/>\nendured<br \/>\nwhere is the light<br \/>\nat the end of the tunnel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[284,285,294,305,329,377],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-ptsd","tag-rape","tag-sexual-assault","tag-trauma"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3741,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/3741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}