{"id":12312,"date":"2023-01-18T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.co.uk\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2023-01-18T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T17:17:11","slug":"the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/the-room\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Room<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I survived I survived I survived&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is the limit of my consciousness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I survived all the battles of the&nbsp;war&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Without&nbsp;even a bloody&nbsp;scratch&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wrote many poems now long&nbsp;hidden&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In those blazing dreams of my experience&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each day I try to exorcise these poems&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By disturbing the dusts of the many tables&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That litter this wretched but beautiful&nbsp;cell&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is my mothers safe warm womb&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Away from my fathers deep disappointed eyes&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The doctors tell me to look&nbsp;at my reflection&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But all I see is a country boy grown old before his time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My cornflower eyes have drowned&nbsp;in the cold cloying mud<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the battlefields where I once loved and worshipped war<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My features are sharp like a black decaying corpse&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whose hollow eyes are staring into a future&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That has been denied to them but not to me&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I have visited Hell in all its glorious silence&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I survived I survived I survived&nbsp; That is the limit of my consciousness I survived all the battles of the&nbsp;war&nbsp; Without&nbsp;even a bloody&nbsp;scratch&nbsp; I wrote many poems now long&nbsp;hidden&nbsp; In those blazing dreams of my experience&nbsp; Each day I try to exorcise these poems&nbsp; By disturbing the dusts of the many tables&nbsp; That litter this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12313,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions\/12313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}