{"id":37755,"date":"2017-08-05T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=37755"},"modified":"2017-08-05T19:24:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T23:24:47","slug":"coruscant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/coruscant\/","title":{"rendered":"Coruscant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep falling for people who are wound<\/span><\/p>\n

so tightly they are a marionette <\/span><\/p>\n

to their own repressed emotion, and<\/span><\/p>\n

if I spend long enough uncoiling <\/span><\/p>\n

their laugh lines they come completely \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

undone, shoulders slumped forward, eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

bright with tears they didn\u2019t think were<\/span><\/p>\n

left.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

some people just don\u2019t<\/span><\/p>\n

talk about things<\/span><\/p>\n

but I am a sparkler broken<\/span>
\n<\/span>in half and lit <\/span>
\n<\/span>from both ends, <\/span>
\n<\/span>coming apart but still <\/span>
\n<\/span>glowing. I am open flame I <\/span><\/p>\n

will burn that paper mache smile<\/span><\/p>\n

right off your face my honesty<\/span><\/p>\n

is catching <\/span><\/p>\n

don\u2019t come to me with <\/span><\/p>\n

stone facade. \u00a0this spark will never <\/span><\/p>\n

be contained I<\/span><\/p>\n

will be ember heat you from <\/span><\/p>\n

the inside spread like an answer glow<\/span><\/p>\n

like a beacon like a hearthfire<\/span><\/p>\n

whenever you need<\/span><\/p>\n

a place to call<\/span><\/p>\n

home. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep falling for people who are wound so tightly they are a marionette to their own repressed emotion, and if I spend long enough uncoiling their laugh lines they come completely \u00a0 undone, shoulders slumped forward, eyes bright with tears they didn\u2019t think were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1091,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755","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\/1091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37781,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37755\/revisions\/37781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}