{"id":2687,"date":"2010-12-20T22:49:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T06:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2010-12-20T22:49:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T06:49:43","slug":"words-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/2010\/words-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you see me between the lines of this poem<br \/>\nPeaking out behind the imposing columns<br \/>\nOf the words that I have created<br \/>\nYet which are slowly uncreating me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you find me in the contours of every word<br \/>\nMolding my body to shape of the letters<br \/>\nThat makes up my very essence, my very soul<br \/>\nThey are my children that have one by one left me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you search for me when I am lost in this forest of words<br \/>\nWhen they consume me and leave me for dead<br \/>\nWill you be there waiting to help pick up the ruin of who I have become<br \/>\nOr will I be left alone with the whispers of the words begging to be born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you distinguish the person who I used to be<br \/>\nFrom the creature that the words have made into me<br \/>\nI am afraid of the darkness that hides within the words<br \/>\nLurking in the shadows of every line I write. It is watching me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you read the words imprinted on my heart<br \/>\nThat left burning scores tattooed in my skin<br \/>\nAs I tore the words from my body<br \/>\nAnd lay them down as a sacrifice to you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you understand the agony I have suffered<br \/>\nFrom you merciless gods who pick at these words<br \/>\nThat are pieces of my being and lay them to ruinous waste<br \/>\nLeaving me in tatters only to rise again to create.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Can you believe me when I say this is my purpose<br \/>\nThis is the reason I live and breath<br \/>\nThe words that I breathe life into<br \/>\nBreathe life back into me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you see me between the lines of this poem Peaking out behind the imposing columns Of the words that I have created Yet which are slowly uncreating me. Can you find me in the contours of every word Molding my body to shape of the letters That makes up my very essence, my very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1435,1434,716,252,222,1436,223,278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.multer.com\/people\/monica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}