
{"id":405,"date":"2011-06-22T15:07:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/?page_id=405"},"modified":"2011-06-22T15:07:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:07:17","slug":"jealousy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/lonelytimes\/jealousy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jealousy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching as my tired eyes roll to the depths of my swollen head<br \/>\nAs my heart stops, blood stops, breathing stops, life stops<br \/>\nI begin to fall &#8211; looking up at the clear, black sky<br \/>\nfollowing me, watching me with effervescent eyes<br \/>\nLaughing eyes, sad eyes, crying with cold, salty rain<br \/>\nIt falls on my peeling, dry, sun parched skin &#8211; revitalizing with each drop<br \/>\nWith each drop comes new life<br \/>\nBut it&#8217;s too late for me, too hot, too&#8230;<br \/>\nwhatever<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t bear to watch anymore<br \/>\nAs I tear the picture out of my mind<br \/>\npictures of love, hate, remorse, pain, jealousy<br \/>\nAhh, jealousy. How it creeps up on me like a cat about to pounce on its prey<br \/>\nIt never ends you know, jealousy<br \/>\nit keeps coming like a fighter too dumb to know when to take a dive<br \/>\nWell I&#8217;m not, I&#8217;m out of the game<br \/>\nI&#8217;m taking my last hit on life<br \/>\nAs I reach for my pen, clenching with such fierce pain &#8211; the agony<br \/>\nsweet agony<br \/>\nI have killed the beast by doing the same to myself<br \/>\nI&#8217;m watching as my tired eyes roll to the depths of my swollen head<br \/>\nnever to see life again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching as my tired eyes roll to the depths of my swollen head As my heart stops, blood stops, breathing stops, life stops I begin to fall &#8211; looking up at the clear, black sky following me, watching me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/lonelytimes\/jealousy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"parent":109,"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\/405"}],"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=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jlfouts.expressions.syr.edu\/inner_poet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}