{"id":1265,"date":"2017-10-11T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:14:13","slug":"earthbound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/11\/earthbound\/","title":{"rendered":"earthbound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->morning is never free<br \/>\nas the crows call<br \/>\nand the sun begins to burn<br \/>\nthe tips of wooden giants<br \/>\nwhat are we<br \/>\nbut noise<br \/>\nin a quiet world<\/p>\n<p>distractions<br \/>\ndriven to the brink of insanity<br \/>\nby the threat of obsolescence<br \/>\nand atmospheres of misunderstanding<br \/>\nwe are waiting<br \/>\nconfused and put on hold<br \/>\nin preparation for<br \/>\nthe cliche of cosmic revelation<br \/>\nthat never manifests<br \/>\nthe circle of life is<br \/>\nwarped and turns at odd angles<\/p>\n<p>what do we say<br \/>\nwhen none of this matters<br \/>\nanymore<br \/>\ndo you still feel the pull<br \/>\nof something greater<br \/>\nalways to the stars you look<br \/>\nthe triumph of destiny<br \/>\nis held within the defeat of the self<br \/>\nfight it<br \/>\nforever<\/p>\n<p>i hate repeating the line<br \/>\ni should\u2019ve gotten outta bed earlier<\/p>\n<p>and who ages better<br \/>\nthe artist or the wage slave<br \/>\nthe tools of the trade<br \/>\nwill only get you so far<br \/>\nand after all these years<br \/>\nthe rhythm still eludes me<\/p>\n<p>limbo is the word of the day<\/p>\n<p>looking for roles<br \/>\nand driven by instinct<br \/>\nthoughts are not actions<br \/>\nbattling the ego<br \/>\nsurviving and stumbling<br \/>\nthrough the background<br \/>\nand looking for a way out<\/p>\n<p>the world may be without end<br \/>\nbut humanity is<br \/>\nloosely locked<br \/>\nin the lunacy of legality<br \/>\na perpetual end<br \/>\nunto itself<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/197-earthbound.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-escutcheon-logo wp-image-1269\" src=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/197-earthbound-146x200.jpg\" alt=\"197-earthbound\" width=\"146\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/197-earthbound-146x200.jpg 146w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/197-earthbound-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/197-earthbound.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 146px) 100vw, 146px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}