{"id":376,"date":"2011-02-25T08:27:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=376"},"modified":"2011-02-25T08:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:27:06","slug":"friday-poetry-where-have-you-gone-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Friday Poetry &#8212; Where Have You Gone, My Son?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where Have You Gone, My Son?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Where have you gone, my son?<br \/>\nYou have made a trail I cannot follow<br \/>\nThere is a hole in my lonely heart<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s left me feeling sad, so hollow<\/p>\n<p>You took your life, my son<br \/>\nIt was a year ago minus a day<br \/>\nI can think only of your memory<br \/>\nIn both a happy and a sad sort of way<\/p>\n<p>The note you left explained nothing<br \/>\nIt made you seem insane, nothing more<br \/>\nStill I wonder what really went wrong<br \/>\nWhy did you close and lock life&#8217;s door?<\/p>\n<p>Where have you gone my son?<br \/>\nNo longer can I hear your voice<br \/>\nI would give anything for you to speak<br \/>\nEven if all you made was noise<\/p>\n<p>I miss you so much every single day<br \/>\nWords cannot describe the pain in my heart<br \/>\nYour family and friends feel the same<br \/>\nAnd that is only the start<\/p>\n<p>I write the words to this song<br \/>\nAnd I imagine beauty singing it loud<br \/>\nFor beauty is what you were to me<br \/>\nEvery single day of you I was so proud<\/p>\n<p>Where have you gone, my son?<br \/>\nWhy did you take your life away?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s so hard for me to carry on<br \/>\nI will mourn you every single day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t take much to see the inspiration for today&#8217;s poem \/ song.\u00a0 I really do imagine some beautiful singer singing this, by the way.\u00a0 Maybe somebody with an Irish lilt; I think it would make for excellent Celtic music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I will have a post tomorrow, the anniversary of Danny&#8217;s death.\u00a0 See you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Have You Gone, My Son? &nbsp; Where have you gone, my son? You have made a trail I cannot follow There is a hole in my lonely heart It&#8217;s left me feeling sad, so hollow You took your life, my son It was a year ago minus a day I can think only of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}