{"id":4968,"date":"2018-12-05T13:24:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2018-12-05T13:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:24:35","slug":"state-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/12\/05\/state-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"state of mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>bewilderment<\/p>\n<p>heavy breathing<\/p>\n<p>tears on an old pillowcase<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I cry for you again<\/p>\n<p>and again<\/p>\n<p>always to no avail<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you are the sun to my flowers<\/p>\n<p>the moon to my stars<\/p>\n<p>the day time shine in my eyes<\/p>\n<p>the midnight bloom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will never be over you<\/p>\n<p>not completely<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>your strong hands will always hold a little piece of me<\/p>\n<p>and mine will hold a piece of yours too<\/p>\n<p>we both cut each other to pieces<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but I think it&#8217;s okay<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s okay for us both<\/p>\n<p>to be making these irrational mistakes<\/p>\n<p>crying to one another about them<\/p>\n<p>we never learn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>all I know is<\/p>\n<p>when I lie in your arms<\/p>\n<p>during a time when neither of us know what we want<\/p>\n<p>know what we need<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I still love you,<\/p>\n<p>though I won&#8217;t say it<\/p>\n<p>I let it cling to the back of my throat<\/p>\n<p>as I know it is clinging to yours<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you think to yourself, &#8220;maybe one day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>and I whisper it back<\/p>\n<p>in a small, small voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bewilderment heavy breathing tears on an old pillowcase &nbsp; I cry for you again and again always to no avail &nbsp; you are the sun to my flowers the moon to my stars the day time shine in my eyes the midnight bloom &nbsp; I will never be over you not completely &nbsp; your strong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/12\/05\/state-of-mind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;state of mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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\/4968"}],"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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4974,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions\/4974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}