{"id":3399,"date":"2024-01-27T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2023-12-29T10:12:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T17:12:07","slug":"the-legend-of-the-virtue-of-being-strong-by-natalie-broadhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2024\/01\/27\/the-legend-of-the-virtue-of-being-strong-by-natalie-broadhead\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Legend of the Virtue of Being Strong&#8221; by Natalie Broadhead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><br>Swimming in deep waters<br>Against a stream of blackness<br>I try to keep my head up<br>Keep smiling while I fight<br>Swimming in deep waters<br>The current works against me<br>Cold hands are trying to pull me<br>Away from air and light<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Thousand eyes are watching me<br>Witness my stupidity<br>And hope to see me fail and finally drown<br>Thousand eyes will testify<br>How I\u2019m foundering by and by<br>Slowly sinking, slowly going down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I will never give in<br>Don\u2019t you see me crying<br>I will keep my head up<br>Keep fighting while I smile<br>My weakness is a secret<br>That you shall never notice<br>If I ever go down<br>I\u2019m going down in style<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My cry for help will not be heard<br>My lips wont let a single word<br>Slip and sound and call for its regard<br>Those thousand eyes will never see<br><code>I<\/code>m suffering to the third degree<br>And just pretending to be tough and hard<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My strength is quickly waning<br>I see the shore before me<br>I struggle to keep floating<br>And keep my dignity<br>I made it to the shoreline<br>Once more escaped the danger<br>The thousand eyes have vanished<br>Into eternity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">A reservoir of uncried tears<br>Is built out of my doubts and fears<br>It never drained, this dam did never break<br>Now that I\u2019ve escaped the seas<br>Im drowning in those uncried tears<br><code>I<\/code>m drowning in my inner secret lake<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><br><em>Natalie Broadhead is an architect and musician in her fifties who mainly writes song lyrics. Her subjects are mostly about family, relationships, and how to lead a purposeful and fulfilling life. She is a keen reader of English and American literature. Natalie has British roots but currently lives in Switzerland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimming in deep watersAgainst a stream of blacknessI try to keep my head upKeep smiling while I fightSwimming in deep watersThe current works against meCold hands are trying to pull meAway from air and light Thousand eyes are watching meWitness my stupidityAnd hope to see me fail and finally drownThousand eyes will testifyHow I\u2019m foundering &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2024\/01\/27\/the-legend-of-the-virtue-of-being-strong-by-natalie-broadhead\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-SP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}