{"id":2662,"date":"2014-10-13T01:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2014-10-13T01:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T01:12:04","slug":"speak-longer-neala-bhagwansingh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/speak-longer-neala-bhagwansingh\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak No Longer by Neala Bhagwansingh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/neala2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2663 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/neala2.jpg\" alt=\"neala2\" width=\"531\" height=\"424\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/neala2.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/neala2-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/neala2-624x497.jpg 624w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 531px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 531\/424;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Speak No Longer<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by\u00a0Neala Bhagwansingh<\/p>\n<p>Speak, they say<br \/>\nthere is so much to know<\/p>\n<p>Tell us your stories<br \/>\nlocked up in boxes<br \/>\nin your worried mind<br \/>\nand fearful heart<br \/>\nin your bruised<br \/>\nand burdened soul<\/p>\n<p>But you see<br \/>\nI see.<\/p>\n<p>I am not afraid<br \/>\nanymore<br \/>\nto be<br \/>\nany more<\/p>\n<p>I used to think I was already opened<br \/>\ngently<br \/>\nby promise of a whole<br \/>\nand roughly<br \/>\nby blows to ego\u2019s self-made shells<\/p>\n<p>But you see<br \/>\nno one can find<br \/>\nthat skeleton key to me<br \/>\nbut me<\/p>\n<p>so I turned the key in rusted locks<br \/>\nof all those scattered boxes<\/p>\n<p>I placed a palm<br \/>\non once tear-stained covers<br \/>\nand lifted<br \/>\nwith sure and steady breaths<br \/>\nwouldn\u2019t you know it<br \/>\nonly Love<br \/>\ncame flooding out<\/p>\n<p>love in eyes to eyes<br \/>\ninstead of eyes to lips<br \/>\nloving ears to hearts<br \/>\ninstead of ears which wait<br \/>\nfor cues to speak<\/p>\n<p>So you see<br \/>\nthere are no bruises and burdens<br \/>\nto speak of now<br \/>\nfor there are no longer shadows<br \/>\nto be sought<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Neala writes to understand the nature of light and shadow in her surroundings, herself and in others. Scribbling her stories from the tiny island of Trinidad in the Caribbean, her poetry, fiction and articles reflect what she loves about life in all its beautiful complexities. Connect with her on twitter: @NealaLuna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neala writes to understand the nature of light and shadow in her surroundings, herself and in others. Scribbling her stories from the tiny island of Trinidad in the Caribbean, her poetry, fiction and articles reflect what she loves about life in all its beautiful complexities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poem"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}