{"id":956,"date":"2019-05-25T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=956"},"modified":"2019-05-25T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T16:26:24","slug":"she-is-who-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/she-is-who-am-i\/","title":{"rendered":"She is… ( Who Am I )"},"content":{"rendered":"
She is…<\/strong><\/em> by\u00a0Aki’a Damone Lashon Hodges\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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She is…<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
She is…\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
The White sheep of the Black flock<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Ostracized, ridiculed – damaged<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
yet not broken\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Smiling she embraces the world <\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Finding joy in the sorrows of tomorrow<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
She is the victim – or is she the survivor?<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Damaged goods – you could say<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
There came a day four wall if ice<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Encased the flesh of her heart – something<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
She still pretends beats in a chest that remains\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
frozen\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Mama – Mama – Silence is mama’s only reply\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
She is damaged not broken<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Forever standing tall in the light of God<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Father of Creation – Father to my Salvation<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
She bleeds tears of sorrow that reflect the Black depths of her frozen heart<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
Yet – here – right here – in this moment<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
She remains trapped<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
By the promises of yesterdays and the uncertainties of tomorrow<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
She is…\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Aki’a Damone Lashon Hodges\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She is… by\u00a0Aki’a Damone Lashon Hodges\u00a0 She is… She is…\u00a0 The White sheep of the Black flock Ostracized, ridiculed – damaged yet not broken\u00a0 Smiling she embraces the world Finding joy in the sorrows of tomorrow She is the victim – or is she the survivor? Damaged goods – you could say There came a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}