{"id":9851,"date":"2020-10-07T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2020-10-07T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T14:00:30","slug":"the-lion-the-witch-and-the-audacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2020\/10\/07\/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-audacity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion, the Witch, and the Audacity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, hi, a lot has happened in the last few weeks.\u00a0 For starters, a boy I really liked, who we both had a love at first sight kind of thing happen, was acting strangely around me.\u00a0 We would talk every day and at some points. He even talked about us getting married.\u00a0 I was all UwU eyes blushy-faced.\u00a0 But one day he started pushing me away and so that night I texted him to make sure everything was alright; and what he told me turned my world upside down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I just woke up one day and thought of you as a friend.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Okay, first of all, you don&#8217;t just go from wanting to marry someone to friend zoning them unless something major happens. Also, we don&#8217;t even seem like friends anymore. He doesn&#8217;t acknowledge me and when I tried to ask about it I was ignored.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t understand what I had done.\u00a0 So yeah, I lost someone really important and now I&#8217;m pretty bumbed about it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, fear not, for in my time of need, low and behold someone comes to rescue me from the depths of a dark depressive episode, and here&#8217;s a poem I wrote about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bright Eyes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Giggling smiles<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who will help me in this time of despair<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Could it be you who is holding out your hand<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With your sweet smile and bright eyes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Helping me sleep through the night<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sparks fly when we kiss<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every time you\u2019re gone, you\u2019re missed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope to spend more time with you<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our connections are surely true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I hope you liked that, it definitely is not the best thing I have ever written.\u00a0 I just had emotions I wanted to release. Sometimes, that is the best thing you can do to not overwhelm yourself.\u00a0 The depths of despair are a dark place, everything seems hopeless, like you will be stuck there forever; but, if you stay stuck there nothing will get better, you have to dig yourself out of the hole before you become buried with the dead.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also, yes, I understand your prince charming isn&#8217;t going to come swoop you up and save the day and all your problems just magically go away, I wish it was that easy, believe me.\u00a0 But no, no one&#8217;s gonna come help you if you don&#8217;t help yourself.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You are strong.<\/p>\n<p>You are important.<\/p>\n<p>You are special.<\/p>\n<p>You are unique.<\/p>\n<p>You matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, hi, a lot has happened in the last few weeks.\u00a0 For starters, a boy I really liked, who we both had a love at first sight kind of thing happen, was acting strangely around me.\u00a0 We would talk every day and at some points. He even talked about us getting married.\u00a0 I was all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2020\/10\/07\/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-audacity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lion, the Witch, and the Audacity&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"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\/9851"}],"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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9851"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9851\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}