
{"id":398,"date":"2011-06-22T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/?page_id=398"},"modified":"2011-06-22T14:54:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T14:54:33","slug":"this-thing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/weird\/this-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"This thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What, or rather who, is this thing<br \/>\nthat creeps inside my enlarged veins<br \/>\nI breathe a stench so rancid that this being becomes alive with pleasure<br \/>\nSearching for the lifeline, strangling my every thought<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t think why but because<br \/>\nQuestions become surreal answers<br \/>\nEvery action, every inspiration lost inside with no hopes of ever reaching that distant light<br \/>\nEyes blurred with the past, this being controlling my sight<br \/>\nAs I wipe the dust away, my inner child laughs<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t clear away something burned deep<br \/>\ndeep inside consciousness<br \/>\nWith each pulsating heartbeat, the blood flow weakens<br \/>\nbrain becomes slow, eventually dying, killing itself<br \/>\nAs it is the first to go, this &#8220;being&#8221; has future control<br \/>\nof all entities that may venture to take charge inside a lifeless shell of a man<br \/>\nliving in a barrier of walls<br \/>\nWhite, as easily ripped down as built up<br \/>\nThey seem&#8230; transparent<br \/>\nforced in a shelter of uncertainty<br \/>\nCan they withstand the pain my soul eludes across them?<br \/>\nThey are so light yet I can barely hold them up<br \/>\ncrashing down on wet leaves<br \/>\nthat scatter with the breaking down<br \/>\nextreme torture like a cell filled with hate<br \/>\nA hole big enough for my hand, the fist of life<br \/>\ntaking one last breath of desperate need<br \/>\nthere is no entrance that leads deeper into<br \/>\nMy brain loses all sensitivity as I finally realize<br \/>\nthat a shroud built up to protect<br \/>\nCan only find its way deeper into a private Hell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What, or rather who, is this thing that creeps inside my enlarged veins I breathe a stench so rancid that this being becomes alive with pleasure Searching for the lifeline, strangling my every thought Can&#8217;t think why but because Questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/weird\/this-thing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":178,"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\/398"}],"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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions\/400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}