{"id":521,"date":"2023-04-11T16:38:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/?p=521"},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:38:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:38:23","slug":"the-carnival-for-the-lost-the-merry-go-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"The Carnival For The Lost &#8211; The Merry Go Round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m at the carnival for the lost,<br>The damaged and the broken,<br>On the merry go round all by myself,<br>And on the fumes of misery I\u2019m choking,<br>The tune is all distorted,<br>Once a delight to hear,<br>Now all demonic,<br>Spreading hate and fear,<br>The horse of death,<br>For which I am perched upon,<br>Go\u2019s up and down and round and round,<br>With both our minds now fully gone,<br>The joker, the jester,<br>The man of this machine,<br>Now only a figment of a ghost,<br>For he never manged to get clean,<br>This was once the towns delight,<br>Bringing people from near and far,<br>But only the darkness remains,<br>And having hope is considered bizarre,<br>The devil haunts and taunts me,<br>At the carnival for the lost,<br>It was free to ride the merry go round,<br>Only my soul it did cost,<br>So I will ride the horse of death<br>Until my soul has been spent,<br>Then spend the rest of my existence,<br>In the devils torment.<br><br><br>Wrote on: 2401\/2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/309775874_5768644766521363_4594735398695697579_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-529\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/309775874_5768644766521363_4594735398695697579_n-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/309775874_5768644766521363_4594735398695697579_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/309775874_5768644766521363_4594735398695697579_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/309775874_5768644766521363_4594735398695697579_n-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/309775874_5768644766521363_4594735398695697579_n.jpg 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m at the carnival for the lost,The damaged and the broken,On the merry go round all by myself,And on the fumes of misery I\u2019m choking,The tune is all distorted,Once a delight to hear,Now all demonic,Spreading hate and fear,The horse of death,For which I am perched upon,Go\u2019s up and down and round and round,With both our&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdp.mtse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}