{"id":10086,"date":"2020-10-21T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2020-10-21T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:23:24","slug":"cease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2020\/10\/21\/cease\/","title":{"rendered":"Cease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
When the sky\u2019s full of clouds<\/span>

There\u2019s nothing to see<\/span>

The crickets are loud<\/span>

And there\u2019s no one but me<\/span>


When the rivers fall quite <\/span>

And the wind seems to roar<\/span>

When nothing is light<\/span>

And life is a chore<\/span>


Go to the woods<\/span>

The middle of here<\/span>

Just breathe in the good <\/span>

And let out your fear <\/span>


Then the night ends in peace<\/span>

And all starts to cease<\/span><\/pre>\n
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This is a poem I wrote when I was looking for some peace in my life. I actually wrote it while I was out on a walk through the 30- acres that my family used to own. the sky had already turned dark and the stars were just coming out, but I couldn’t get any sleep. So I grabbed my phone, a sweatshirt, slipped on my converse, and decided to go walking in the dark – through the woods, to the open clearing, at night, with only my phone to right the way. well, it was a full moon, that night so I didn’t actually need to use my phone flashlight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So I was walking along this path, in the dark, with the moon being bright enough to see. The crickets were the loudest thing around and the only sound I could hear. It hadn’t rained for a while, so the path was pretty dry and covered in a mix of small rocks, dead crunchy leaves, and dead brown pine straw.\u00a0 Plus it’s Mississippi, so most of the trees were super tall evergreen pine trees looming over my path, mixed with other kinds of trees that I don’t know the names of.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After walking for a couple of minutes, I arrive at the clearing to the back of our 30- acres of land. The stars are fully out by this point and I was able to pinpoint where the little and big dippers were in the dark, hazy sky. And so I just stood in the clearing, letting the calm of the woods wash away my worry.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Eventually, it got super cold, (plus there were coyotes howling a little ways off and I was alone in the dead of night. it got freaky fast.) and my plan had worked. I felt very much relieved as I walked back to my house. Walking in the woods at night can be very peaceful.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When the sky\u2019s full of cloudsThere\u2019s nothing to seeThe crickets are loudAnd there\u2019s no one but meWhen the rivers fall quite And the wind seems to roarWhen nothing is lightAnd life is a choreGo to the woodsThe middle of hereJust breathe in the good And let out your fear Then the night ends in peaceAnd all starts to … Continue reading “Cease”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10113,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions\/10113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}