{"id":35805,"date":"2017-08-05T16:18:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=35805"},"modified":"2017-08-05T16:18:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:18:17","slug":"self-injection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/self-injection\/","title":{"rendered":"Self Injection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I injected you<br \/>\nToo far beneath the skin<br \/>\nI can feel your longing<br \/>\nAnd taste what should have been<\/p>\n<p>Serenity can&#8217;t find me<br \/>\nWhen I still feel your touch<br \/>\nAnd still, your face beside<br \/>\nStill driving this heartclutch<\/p>\n<p>Each time I reach the surface<br \/>\nYour name grabs, drags me down<br \/>\nClaiming every movement<br \/>\nMuting every sound<\/p>\n<p>Machine, it holds it&#8217;s graces<br \/>\nFeeding what you fear<br \/>\nCollecting what you dreamt<br \/>\nProducing every tear<\/p>\n<p>Soul on shattered paper<br \/>\nWill never meet complete<br \/>\nFor I had come to meet you<br \/>\nYet you left in defeat<\/p>\n<p>The word of disappointment<br \/>\nIn self, fell from your tongue<br \/>\nI was left, stand broken<br \/>\nWhen only just begun<\/p>\n<p>Stars you painted blindly<br \/>\nLead me to your side<br \/>\nAnd still I wandered onward<br \/>\nAnd left without reply<\/p>\n<p>Note left hanging on<br \/>\nWith unrelenting strain<br \/>\nPulsing from inside<br \/>\nGrows weak without sustain<\/p>\n<p>Sentenced me to skinpeel<br \/>\nAs I still feel your touch<br \/>\nThe grasp still hard around me<br \/>\nAnd bruised by intent blush<\/p>\n<p>The longing that you saw<br \/>\nPouring from my eye<br \/>\nCould have been kissed away<br \/>\nBut never said goodbye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I injected you Too far beneath the skin I can feel your longing And taste what should have been Serenity can&#8217;t find me When I still feel your touch And still, your face beside Still driving this heartclutch Each time I reach the surface&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35805","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\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35955,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35805\/revisions\/35955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}