{"id":1525,"date":"2023-06-18T11:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T11:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2023-06-18T11:53:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T11:53:50","slug":"mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2023\/06\/18\/mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in the 2015 Fall Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Mercy\nGabrielle Tanksley '17\n\nSirens scream in the distance\n4 am and I'm screaming because we missed it\nAmerica the brave\nThe mighty and the fallen\nDoesn't see the point\nThe back story\nOf gun control\nAnd bad patrol\nOr the devastating fact that\nGuns need controlling\nThe news stories are always rolling\nThat a secure America\nHas turned into insecure, rash acts\nOf selfish self-believers who seem to think that they're this or that\nOf people so out of it they'll take the risk\nAnd, in THIS America,\nLikely perish\n\nI'm screaming as the sirens wail\nThat children are sleeping\nBut America's not well \nAnd I wonder what it will be 5, 10 years from now\nIf America will rise up \nOr be selfishly endowed\nwith the entitled and the invalids, \nDespondent alike\nAnd this lack of hope\nThis lack of drive\nStopped producing Americans\nAnd created convoluted criminals\nBiased and judgmental\nAnd at the end of the day,\nRefusing to step up and make a change\n\nShouting for freedom but forging chains in secret\nBefore our neighbors can see them\nBecause in this America the free, the brave, \nuse their freedom for everything but the good fight\nAnd aren't brave enough to admit that somewhere,\neverywhere,\nThings. Aren't. Right.\nWe Went Wrong\nin THIS America\nNo hypotheses, that's a FACT\nAmericans, men, women,\nGet it through your heads\nThere's No. Going. Back.\n\nThe sirens scream\nMercy!\nAnd wail, crying out for freedom\nBut these chains are binding\nFrantically searching for a key then\nEmpty, blank, vacuous space\nWhere are the good souls left to free us\n\nCloser\nclosing\nLosing\nloss\nlost\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabrielle Tanksley &#8217;17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1614,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}