{"id":5223,"date":"2019-01-23T16:39:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2019-01-23T16:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T22:39:21","slug":"excerpts-from-my-spiraling-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/01\/23\/excerpts-from-my-spiraling-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpts From My Spiraling Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Change me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Form me into the person I so desperately long to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Take my walls and knock them down,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but leave the pieces behind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so I\u2019ll be able to see the self-development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Keep me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hold me so close that I mistake you for myself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pour your positivity into me for I know no such thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strike the voices in my head with love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so I can finally sleep just one night without sobbing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bundle me up in what it is I lack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuck me into the nooks and crannies of my favorite storybook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but don\u2019t let me get lost in the fairy tale islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Always bring me back to reality even if it kills me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay with me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clothe me in your passion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sit me down when I\u2019ve been pacing back and forth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but teach me how to do so myself,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so that if there is a day you can\u2019t take me anymore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ll be able to replace you with the unrecognizable reflection on the wall. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change me. Form me into the person I so desperately long to be. Take my walls and knock them down, but leave the pieces behind, so I\u2019ll be able to see the self-development. &nbsp; Keep me. Hold me so close that I mistake you for myself. Pour your positivity into me for I know no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/01\/23\/excerpts-from-my-spiraling-mind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Excerpts From My Spiraling Mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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\/5223"}],"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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}