{"id":490,"date":"2003-02-22T09:43:21","date_gmt":"2003-02-22T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=490"},"modified":"2003-02-22T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2003-02-22T14:43:21","slug":"490","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>on thursday night i read this at the poetry reading we had in the cafe.  I originally didn&#8217;t really intend for anyone to hear it, so it has never been posted here or anything.  i was told it was good, though it pretty much was all written out straight at once&#8230; and i never went back and edited anything.  anyway, other reasons it was never posted here&#8230; i didn&#8217;t write it on the computer, so it&#8217;s not a simple matter of copying and pasting&#8230; and also the person whom it is written about, who is a very speciffic person indeed, could very easily read it.  For some reason that makes me really uncomfortable&#8230;  though there is nothing bad said about them in this.  oh well.  Anyway, here it is:<BR><BR>No title.<BR><BR>&#8220;It returned here today<BR>I thought it was gone forever<BR>Past experiences so long away<BR>I&#8217;d no hope that they&#8217;d return ever.<BR>Bleeding heart and beaten mind<BR>Can no more bear this awful truth<BR>Yet i miss it so and cannot find<BR>A means to cause my wounds to soothe.<BR>What brought you back I can&#8217;t say<BR>Months have passed without you near<BR>And yet it seems that perhaps you never were away<BR>A part of my spirit you were made<BR>Bonded together for all of time<BR>Though it seems that this must fade<BR>I am altered for all of time.<BR>I miss you, old friend.&#8221;<BR><BR><BR>I also read The Hero, but it has already been previously posted here, so I won&#8217;t do so again.  If you desire to read it, click <A href=\"http:\/\/www.misthios.net\/~reese\/thehero.htm\" target=_new>here<\/a>.<BR><BR>That is all for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on thursday night i read this at the poetry reading we had in the cafe. I originally didn&#8217;t really intend for anyone to hear it, so it has never been posted here or anything. i was told it was good, though it pretty much was all written out straight at once&#8230; and i never went &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/?p=490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkestlight.org\/xanga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}