{"id":40107,"date":"2011-07-20T07:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T11:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=40107"},"modified":"2011-07-20T07:43:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T11:43:49","slug":"poem-child-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/poetry\/poem-child-at-war\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Child at war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40108\" title=\"lonely child\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lonely-child.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lonely-child.jpg 122w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lonely-child-86x113.jpg 86w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/>Can you hear my heart beating?<br \/>\nDo you see the tears racing down my cheeks?<br \/>\nCan you feel the earth moving&#8230;.and feel the fire burning<br \/>\nthrough your skin?!!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Father&#8217;s nowhere to be found&#8230;..<br \/>\nMother&#8217;s laying on the ground&#8230;..<br \/>\nPlease won&#8217;t you hold me now?<br \/>\nWon&#8217;t you hold me&#8212;hold me &#8217;till tomorrow<br \/>\nI promise I won&#8217;t cry<br \/>\njust hold me &#8217;till I see the sun,<br \/>\nHold me &#8217;till tomorrow comes&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the smell of a raging war<br \/>\nand the sound of bitter hate<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m caught in between.&#8211;is this really my fate?<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know why, but I&#8217;m in death&#8217;s hands<br \/>\nThis is something I just CANNOT COMPREHEND<\/p>\n<p>My life has just begun yet I&#8217;m slipping to the end&#8230;<br \/>\nso please won&#8217;t you HOLD me now?!!<br \/>\nwrap your arms around me tight<br \/>\nblind me, rob me from my sight,<br \/>\nJust hold me through the night,<br \/>\nuntil tomorrow,<br \/>\nshield me from this pain&#8212;for just ONE night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can you hear my heart beating? 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