{"id":5752,"date":"2019-04-08T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2019-04-08T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T20:27:43","slug":"old-poetry-is-cringey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/04\/08\/old-poetry-is-cringey\/","title":{"rendered":"old poetry is cringey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was scrolling through my old files and I found this gem. Guys, was I really this needy last year? gross<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Beautifully Painful<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nMy confidence is like the wind,<br \/>\nit comes and goes with your emotions.<br \/>\nSometimes you make me a hurricane.<br \/>\nSometimes I\u2019m a soft ocean breeze.<br \/>\nSometimes I don\u2019t even exist.<\/p>\n<p>Your internal clock is strange,<br \/>\nyour time changes too quickly.<br \/>\nWhy one minute do you cherish me,<br \/>\nand the next minute I am only the wind in your steps,<br \/>\nthe breeze that follows your feet?<br \/>\nSomething that is just a given.<\/p>\n<p>Do not take me for granted.<br \/>\nI am not the laces on your shoes,<br \/>\nthe drawstrings on your joggers,<br \/>\nnor the button of your pants.<br \/>\nI am not a given.<\/p>\n<p>You tend to act like I am though,<br \/>\nand I forgive you,<br \/>\nbut I must ask you to stop.<br \/>\nI must ask you to appreciate me.<\/p>\n<p>Without me you would crumble,<br \/>\nwe both know that;<br \/>\nI am not a liar.<\/p>\n<p>You need me,<br \/>\nI know you do.<br \/>\nYou know you do.<\/p>\n<p>And strangely enough,<br \/>\nI need you too.<br \/>\nNo matter that horrible thing<br \/>\nthat I said in an argument<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t mean it.<br \/>\nI know im not perfect either.<br \/>\nI\u2019m bossy.<br \/>\nI\u2019m rude.<br \/>\nUnfair.<br \/>\nI know.<\/p>\n<p>But I do love you,<br \/>\nwith every piece of myself<br \/>\nAll of it is yours.<\/p>\n<p>I love that you love me, too,<br \/>\nno matter the pain that comes of it.<\/p>\n<p>I would scrape the moon from the sky for you,<br \/>\nnever forget that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>W H Y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was scrolling through my old files and I found this gem. Guys, was I really this needy last year? gross Beautifully Painful My confidence is like the wind, it comes and goes with your emotions. Sometimes you make me a hurricane. Sometimes I\u2019m a soft ocean breeze. Sometimes I don\u2019t even exist. Your internal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2019\/04\/08\/old-poetry-is-cringey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;old poetry is cringey&#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\/5752"}],"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=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5753,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/5753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}