{"id":4204,"date":"2010-10-01T01:10:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T06:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2010-09-20T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:56:34","slug":"they-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2010\/10\/01\/they-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"They are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>they are coming,<br \/>\noh dear goddess, they are coming.<br \/>\nnow i see their lanterns glowing<br \/>\nthrough the trees.<br \/>\nand i hear the sickles crashing<br \/>\nand the anger that is lashing<br \/>\nat these simple souls<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve ever tried to please.<br \/>\nthey are led now by that angry, self-important preacher, the holy man with hatred in his heart.<br \/>\nand his ever-open book,<br \/>\nand his angry, biting face,<br \/>\nwith his certainty he has the only way.<br \/>\ni have helped the maidens caught before their time given salves and potions, healing for their woes.<br \/>\ni have taken from their wombs, the mewling babies, and bound the jaws of those who passed away.<br \/>\ni have cured their beasts of scour,<br \/>\nshown them how to mend their clothes,<br \/>\nlived here quietly, for many, many years.<br \/>\nnow i stand here, in my home,<br \/>\nand i hear them,<br \/>\nas they come to take me<br \/>\nroughly, to my death.<br \/>\ngoddess, in your mercy,<br \/>\ntake me to you.<br \/>\nthey will swim me in the morning,<br \/>\nthat i know.<br \/>\nand if, by some ill chance, i should survive that, then the fire waits, and they will watch me burn.<br \/>\ni have known them all their lives,<br \/>\neach and every one,<br \/>\nseen their troubles,<br \/>\neased their suffering when i can.<br \/>\nbut they say i am a daughter of some devil, never, ever loved by mortal man.<br \/>\nif this must be, Lady, all i ask is this.<br \/>\nlet me die with dignity,<br \/>\na real witch.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>they are coming, oh dear goddess, they are coming. now i see their lanterns glowing through the trees. and i hear the sickles crashing and the anger that is lashing at these simple souls i&#8217;ve ever tried to please. they are led now by that angry, self-important preacher, the holy man with hatred in his heart. and his ever-open book, and his angry, biting face, with his certainty he has the only way. i have helped the maidens caught before their time given salves and potions, healing for their woes. i have taken from their wombs, the mewling babies, and bound the jaws of those who passed away. i have cured their beasts of scour, shown them how to mend their clothes, lived here quietly, for many, many years. now i stand here, in my home, and i hear them, as they come to take me roughly, to my death. goddess, in your mercy, take me to you. they will swim me in the morning, that i know. and if, by some ill chance, i should survive that, then the fire waits, and they will watch me burn. i have known them all their lives, each and every one, seen their troubles, eased their suffering when i can. but they say i am a daughter of some devil, never, ever loved by mortal man. if this must be, Lady, all i ask is this. let me die with dignity, a real witch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}