{"id":381,"date":"2018-11-07T20:19:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T02:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/?p=381"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:46:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:46:28","slug":"the-night-of-escape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/the-night-of-escape\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night of Escape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A night of great horror but where I did win,
\nA horror so great it would make your head spin.
\nCan you picture this, your sound a sleep in your bedroom,
\nOnly to wake with a stranger over you he did loom.<\/p>\n

You feel a tightness of hands at your throat,
\nWith a wicked grin, he did gloat.
\nYour not alone in the house for there is a baby about,
\nNow your so scared you can’t even shout.<\/p>\n

Now he speaks almost with glee,
\nHe tells you how he wants it to be.
\nDo as I say now and the baby I will bring no harm,
\nAll I could think was how to disarm?<\/p>\n

It was certainly clear he intended to rape,
\nAnd with the baby in danger, there was no escape.
\nMy only defence was my hopefully cleverness,
\nTo get me and my baby out of this mess.<\/p>\n

I could not turn my head to see what’s the time,
\nso I took a chance and proclaimed without any rhyme.
\nOh my lord, I hope it not close to four,
\nFor you will have my husband to contend with and more.<\/p>\n

Not knowing the time and no husband to boot,
\nDid I now take the right route?
\nSuddenly now the tables did turn,
\nAnd the man’s face did show great concern.<\/p>\n

I tried to stay as calm as I could,
\nAs I planted more seeds which he understood.
\nThe pictures I planted into this guys mind,
\nWas that of a husband and his bones he would grind.<\/p>\n

I could see a new change in this guys mind,
\nIt was him now that felt so confined.
\nHe tried to still sound strong and tough,
\nBut he could not get out of here fast enough.<\/p>\n

As he quickly left out of this place,
\nI glanced at the clock face.
\nTen minutes to four is what it now showed,
\nAll I could feel now was relief as it flowed.<\/p>\n

Now you may think this guy that did flee,
\nmight have got off totally scott free.
\nBut later that week I did find and see him,
\nat another apartment with his girlfriend.<\/p>\n

I waited my time until she was one,
\nThen I told her the all he had done.
\nNow here is a small twist of my little piece,
\nIt was not me but her, that called the police.<\/p>\n

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Poem Style – Quatrain \/ Poem Catagory – Personal
\nWritten by Lady Kathleen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A night of great horror but where I did win, A horror so great it would make your head spin. Can you picture this, your sound a sleep in your bedroom, Only to wake with a stranger over you he did loom. You feel a tightness of hands at your throat, With a wicked grin, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10217940033071675_2067660953325404":"","twitter_62031022_62031022":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,4],"tags":[60,83,120,122,291,296,333,359,563,575,584,599,613,629,662,690,729,831],"class_list":["post-381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","category-quatrain","tag-apartment","tag-bones","tag-cleverness","tag-clock-face","tag-girlfriend","tag-glee","tag-head-spin","tag-horror","tag-personal","tag-poe","tag-police-poem","tag-quatrain","tag-rape","tag-rhyme-style","tag-seeds","tag-sleep","tag-stranger","tag-wicked-grin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/files\/2019\/02\/night-escape.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKwh0-69","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}