{"id":685,"date":"2010-07-17T15:19:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T22:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=685"},"modified":"2016-07-16T23:06:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T06:06:11","slug":"inside-her-soul-echoes-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Inside her soul: echoes II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside her soul: echoes II<\/p>\n<p>unmade beds,<br \/>\ndirty clothes,<br \/>\nthe stench of yesterday\u2019s garbage<br \/>\nin my nose<br \/>\nand my man wonders why<br \/>\ni don\u2019t love him<br \/>\nno more<br \/>\nwell, he should read this poem<br \/>\nshe\u2019ll speak of my grief<br \/>\nof how I<br \/>\ntoss and turn<br \/>\ntoss and turn<br \/>\nwondering why<br \/>\nwhy?<br \/>\nHE took me<br \/>\nfrom the afric\u2019s shore<br \/>\ni died that day<br \/>\nyou shackled me with your shame<br \/>\nviolated<br \/>\nmy ancestral rite<br \/>\nof chastity<br \/>\nonly to label me<br \/>\ni need purity<br \/>\nso I rise every morn<br \/>\nbefore the SON<br \/>\nto make the beds<br \/>\nto wash the clothes<br \/>\nto try and remove<br \/>\nthe stench of garbage from my nose<br \/>\nnoon time comes<br \/>\nall to soon<br \/>\nback broken<br \/>\nflesh weary<br \/>\nbabies sold for a small sum of gold<br \/>\nat night<br \/>\ni conversate with the moon<br \/>\nhoping he will<br \/>\ngive me direction<br \/>\nand I pray for<br \/>\nthe resurrection<br \/>\nof me<br \/>\npray for the day<br \/>\nyour love no longer enslaves me<br \/>\npray for the day when echoes of the past no longer haunt me\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside her soul: echoes II unmade beds, dirty clothes, the stench of yesterday\u2019s garbage in my nose and my man wonders why i don\u2019t love him no more well, he should read this poem she\u2019ll speak of my grief of how I toss and turn toss and turn wondering why why? HE took me from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[546,270,547,634,9,5085],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-alicia-d-harris","tag-black-women","tag-inside-her-soul","tag-love","tag-violence","tag-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20285,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/20285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}