{"id":22866,"date":"2026-01-22T09:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=22866"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:09:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T15:09:56","slug":"measured-in-sails-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2026\/01\/22\/measured-in-sails-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Measured in Sails (poem)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The wound in being held back doesn’t scar the age, but the mind and behavior.<\/em><\/p>\n

I often find myself adrift to these emotions that come and go between fleets<\/p>\n

Docked at the harbor, they’re sailboats with tied masts, whilst I drift further away. Perhaps I subconsciously let it happen or was it the confession that masks their willingness to converse with me?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The bond broke two, yet only one was still tied.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mapping these seas, I’ve sailed for nearly thirteen years. Countless of times I have endured the aftermath, storm that follows rejection. Their looks, their quiet responses, the silent distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But a bruised ship has a hardened hull.<\/p>\n

The stronger titanium of change\u00a0<\/em>after every reckoning.<\/em><\/p>\n

I do not simply wish to remain idle and expect a sudden sunshine and gusts of wind to blow them to my side.<\/p>\n

I can dock, I can read the pools in their eyes, their otherworldly waters filled with unspoken words.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I will not sink because of one measly iceberg when there had been three others just like it with the same proclamation. The same number of familiars and more.<\/p>\n

Because through a storm comes warmer, newer waters, waters that some sails and hulls can’t bear unless put together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The white, beautiful sails of youth will be lost. So many holes and tears it has had in my lifetime.<\/p>\n

By the date in April, when the clock strikes 12:01 a.m. The mark of the sixteenth day, I’ll raise my black sails and sail away to the new and unchartered waters in the night beneath the nose of others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After all, the life of an adult is much colder…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The wound in being held back doesn’t scar the age, but the mind and behavior. I often find myself adrift to these emotions that come and go between fleets Docked at the harbor, they’re sailboats with tied masts, whilst I drift further away. Perhaps I subconsciously let it happen or was it the confession that … Continue reading “Measured in Sails (poem)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"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\/22866"}],"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\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22883,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22866\/revisions\/22883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}