Joy is fleeting<\/p>\n
rarely seen<\/p>\n
I have no true recollection of it<\/p>\n
possibly of content<\/p>\n
it seems overrated<\/p>\n
like an experience to have<\/p>\n
not hold<\/p>\n
not one to be<\/p>\n
not one that stays<\/p>\n
I am weary of drifters.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I have come to know and understand<\/p>\n
my darkness.<\/p>\n
It’s my neighbor<\/p>\n
sometimes it comes over and bathes with me<\/p>\n
drinks tea<\/p>\n
and makes me reflect on the things I need to work on<\/p>\n
within myself<\/p>\n
Sometimes I welcome it<\/p>\n
and other times<\/p>\n
I shut it out<\/p>\n
scream at it<\/p>\n
tell it to leave me alone<\/p>\n
and it does<\/p>\n
for a little while<\/p>\n
but always returns to see if its missed<\/p>\n
to see if it can teach me a little bit more<\/p>\n
about people that I don’t need in my life<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
it sends demons by<\/p>\n
to glance me over<\/p>\n
to trick me into acceptance of making more room<\/p>\n
for it<\/p>\n
It prefers me by myself<\/p>\n
I don’t know what I’m like without it<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Joy is a tease<\/p>\n
a toxic false fleeting emotion<\/p>\n
that stays only long enough for a sip<\/p>\n
its harder to know<\/p>\n
to understand<\/p>\n
its too bright<\/p>\n
and I work with the lights off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joy is fleeting rarely seen I have no true recollection of it possibly of content it seems overrated like an experience to have not hold not one to be not one that stays I am weary of drifters. I have come to know and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125076,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119814\/revisions\/125076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}