{"id":267,"date":"2020-11-18T01:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=267"},"modified":"2020-11-20T02:14:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T02:14:16","slug":"cotton-balls","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/cotton-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cotton Balls<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(A Free Verse)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was born\u00a0<br>Entered a world of pure gold\u00a0<br>She knew it was\u00a0<br>Curiosity conquered her being\u00a0<br>Experimentation was the top priority\u00a0<br>Gathering information\u00a0<br>Putting a lock on them\u00a0<br>She slowly acquired lingual skills\u00a0<br>And the ability to comprehend\u00a0<br>Phenomenal life became\u00a0<br>Simplicity at her fingertips\u00a0<br>With the capacity to understand\u00a0<br>Came the prejudice\u00a0<br>Persuasion and indoctrination\u00a0<br>Of course, lead her to confusion\u00a0<br>But a choice none other than acceptance\u00a0<br>The questions\u00a0<br>The curiosity\u00a0<br>All began to fade\u00a0<br>The information contained in the world of gold\u00a0\u00a0<br>It seemed to suffice\u00a0<br>No need to wonder or ponder with hypotheticals\u00a0<br>She kept on\u00a0<br>Remaining under the clouds\u00a0<br>No matter how urged she felt to break through those cotton balls\u00a0<br>They seemed to be the limit\u00a0<br>She rested along with the others\u00a0<br>But something was off\u00a0<br>Something always seemed to be off\u00a0<br>She couldn\u2019t fathom it, but she knew she was living falsely\u00a0<br>Bewildered she was\u00a0<br>Abiding in a leveled, repetitive society\u00a0<br>Yet a question was all it took\u00a0<br>A moment of silence\u00a0<br>She wondered\u00a0<br>And pondered\u00a0<br>All forms intertwined\u00a0<br>Browsing her atmosphere, she observed facets she\u2019d never thought to evaluate\u00a0<br>She felt detached from her own, lifelong beliefs\u00a0<br>Everything transfigured\u00a0<br>She was metamorphosed\u00a0<br>Energy fundamental to the universe\u00a0<br>She unbuckled the seatbelt of the world\u00a0<br>Her life form embraced\u00a0<br>Senses permanently climaxed\u00a0<br>Mind was clear as glass\u00a0<br>Longing for her kind, she searched\u00a0<br>The tables turned\u00a0<br>No one\u00a0<br>A sole soul\u00a0<br>But one who saw the rest as indifferent from herself\u00a0<br>She broke free and rose above\u00a0<br>The clouds &#8211; her companion\u00a0<br>She was born\u00a0<br>Entered a world of pure gold\u00a0<br>She knew it was\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nCotton Balls&nbsp; (A Free Verse)&nbsp; She was born\u00a0Entered a world of pure gold\u00a0She knew it was\u00a0Curiosity conquered her being\u00a0Experimentation was the top priority\u00a0Gathering information\u00a0Putting a lock on them\u00a0She slowly acquired lingual skills\u00a0And the ability to comprehend\u00a0Phenomenal life became\u00a0Simplicity at her&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/cotton-balls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cotton Balls&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/no-intro.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-267","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/267\/revisions\/389"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}