
{"id":272,"date":"2011-03-22T19:39:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T19:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.syr.edu\/pure_poetry\/?page_id=272"},"modified":"2011-03-22T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T19:42:00","slug":"is-your-life-insignificant","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/miscthoughts\/is-your-life-insignificant\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Your Life Insignificant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or are you like me, lonely yet free<br \/>\nFree to go where I want<br \/>\nto think what I want<br \/>\nto see who I want<br \/>\nFree to explore, to investigate, to be curious<br \/>\nFree to be me, yet don&#8217;t like what I see<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve called only to get no answer<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve visited only to find no one there<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve loved and lost and thought to myself<br \/>\n&#8220;I wish I would have never loved at all&#8221;<br \/>\nIncapable of love and incompatible to be made loved too<br \/>\nSometimes I am invisible, numb, lost<br \/>\nSometimes I can see clearer with my eyes closed,<br \/>\nwishing that they would never open<br \/>\nI long to be comfortable, walking through the back door<br \/>\ninstead of the front<br \/>\nI long to be held by hands so big<br \/>\nthat I lose myself in their life lines, fingers pointing to the heavens<br \/>\nSometimes my brother is my best friend<br \/>\nSometimes I think of my best friend as my brother<br \/>\nI climb to the top only to see the top<br \/>\nNothing below and nothing above<br \/>\nEverything is equal, parallel, neutral<br \/>\nHow can you find answers in a world full of questions<br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t cried in months and begin to wonder &#8220;why&#8221;<br \/>\nWhy do I only remember certain events in my life and tend to forget the rest<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s like I wasn&#8217;t even there &#8211; like I only existed in times which only I can remember<br \/>\nIs my life that insignificant?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or are you like me, lonely yet free Free to go where I want to think what I want to see who I want Free to explore, to investigate, to be curious Free to be me, yet don&#8217;t like what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/miscthoughts\/is-your-life-insignificant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":97,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/272\/revisions\/275"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}