
{"id":379,"date":"2011-05-13T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/?page_id=379"},"modified":"2011-05-13T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T16:48:45","slug":"because-of-you","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/onlove\/because-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Because of You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think you have it all figured out<br \/>\nHere I come<br \/>\nJust when you begin to relax and think to yourself<br \/>\n&#8220;Life is good&#8221;<br \/>\nHere I come<br \/>\nA pact, a commitment, a lifelong contract<br \/>\nmeaningless<br \/>\nHere I come to add a little flavor to the mix<br \/>\nHere I come to make stability seem unstable<br \/>\nJust when you thought you were moving forward<br \/>\nIs really backwards?<br \/>\nWhite is black and so on<br \/>\nHere I come to say to you, &#8220;Why?&#8221;<br \/>\nWhy do I love you love someone else?<br \/>\nAnd if you do, why?<br \/>\nI have the best of both worlds?<br \/>\nHere I come, always alone, watching the past slip through my fingers only to repeat itself yet again<br \/>\nIs it easier to love you because you love another?<br \/>\nMaybe<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s not easier to love you because you love another<br \/>\nI hope you understand<br \/>\nHere I come as a reminder of just how unfair life is<br \/>\nOf just how cruel nature can be<br \/>\nPaying for the crimes of others<br \/>\nWhile you go home to your security<br \/>\nI am left here to survive on my own<br \/>\nNow who has it better?<br \/>\nHere I come to show you, to make it unmistakably clear<br \/>\nthat I love you not because of your finger trinkets<br \/>\nbut because of you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just when you think you have it all figured out Here I come Just when you begin to relax and think to yourself &#8220;Life is good&#8221; Here I come A pact, a commitment, a lifelong contract meaningless Here I come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/onlove\/because-of-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":98,"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\/379"}],"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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/379\/revisions\/380"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}