{"id":301,"date":"2014-10-16T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.wordpress.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2017-02-17T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T13:34:31","slug":"past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/16\/past\/","title":{"rendered":"past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>i remember long nights<br \/>\ncorrupted by mistaken curiosity<br \/>\nand how the mildest touch<br \/>\nled to holistic admissions&#8230;<br \/>\nit was always a question<br \/>\nof how much<br \/>\ntruth, to be a<br \/>\nsolemn confessor<br \/>\nin comfort and in fear<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t write while cuddled<br \/>\nin curious chains of<br \/>\nmisquoted and misguided actions<br \/>\nphonetic dungeon,<br \/>\na cage of self censorship<br \/>\ni remember racy nights<br \/>\nspent with a tactical<br \/>\ncaress, lips like fire<br \/>\nand time spent exploring<br \/>\nbody and mind<br \/>\nmoments, almost in tune<br \/>\nby the light of the moon<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s always a<br \/>\nmix minus<br \/>\nwords given and actions<br \/>\ntaken away<br \/>\nof course I<br \/>\ncontinued to wander<br \/>\nthough change<br \/>\nwas never easy<br \/>\nit still isn&#8217;t<br \/>\nnow i drink to remember<br \/>\nand i drink to forget<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all bad writing<br \/>\nhaunted<br \/>\nwith subtle reminders<br \/>\noutfitted in dubious motives<br \/>\nand highlighted by<br \/>\nsordid and ethereal episodes<br \/>\nthe past never dies<br \/>\nit lives unfed<br \/>\nin a hidden corner of your mind<br \/>\nwaiting to decay and<br \/>\nfeed the future<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s harder to<br \/>\nforget<br \/>\npains past felt,<br \/>\nmost<br \/>\nlift that sadness<br \/>\nif only for a moment<br \/>\nyet, all too often<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s a tragic pull, desire<br \/>\nfor something more<br \/>\na new person, experience<br \/>\nand quiet revelation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poeticexorcisms.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}