{"id":658,"date":"2012-03-04T14:54:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=658"},"modified":"2012-03-04T14:54:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T14:54:30","slug":"unsinkable","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=658","title":{"rendered":"Unsinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unsinkable<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rain is gently falling on the skylight in my room,<br \/>\nI lie in bed and look out at the opalescent gloom.<br \/>\nMy bedside clock says twenty-five to seven and I yawn,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s too wet or it\u2019s too early for the chorus of the dawn.<\/p>\n<p>As I lie there in the silence broken only by the rain,<br \/>\nA kaleidoscope of memories goes tumbling through my brain:<br \/>\nImages, unbidden, sharp reminders of my pain,<br \/>\nAn unending horror movie to the soundtrack of the rain.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I\u2019m lying in the bath, almost totally submerged,<br \/>\nMelting in viscosity, running in the heat.<br \/>\nTrying to slow the pounding of my pulse by breathing deeply,<br \/>\nTo prevent it sounding soundings, s.o.s-ing from the deep.<\/p>\n<p>My ship has overturned, the unthinkable has happened,<br \/>\nThe Unsinkable has foundered, belly-up in foreign seas,<br \/>\nI\u2019m a desperate \u201csoul-survivor\u201d in an airlock in this coffin-hull,<br \/>\nBanging out my message, hopless hoping for release.<\/p>\n<p>The rain is gently falling on the skylight in my room,<br \/>\nI lie in bed and look out at the opalescent gloom.<br \/>\nMy bedside clock says twenty-five to seven and I yawn,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s too wet or it\u2019s too early for the chorus of the dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unsinkable The rain is gently falling on the skylight in my room, I lie in bed and look out at the opalescent gloom. My bedside clock says twenty-five to seven and I yawn, It\u2019s too wet or it\u2019s too early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/?page_id=658\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":566,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P36zMW-aC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulocolmain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}