{"id":299,"date":"2020-11-18T01:27:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T01:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/16-1\/?page_id=299"},"modified":"2020-11-20T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:04:00","slug":"bury-your-woes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/bury-your-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Bury Your Woes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cBury Your Woes\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I bury my woes behind my forehead&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">to remind myself of the strength I hold above them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">But is true strength about letting go?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">About uncovering those woes&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">before they grow strong enough to take hold&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">of me?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Will vulnerability set me free,&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">or will I crumple to dust&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">before I ever get to see this victory?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Will my woes fall to their&nbsp;knees&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">as a sign of relentless defeat?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Or&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">will I?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In a war between vulnerability&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">and hiding those woes inside,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">which will cause more damage?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">I will do&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">~ anything ~&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">to survive.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n\u201cBury Your Woes\u201d\u00a0 I bury my woes behind my forehead&nbsp;&nbsp; to remind myself of the strength I hold above them.&nbsp; But is true strength about letting go?&nbsp;&nbsp; About uncovering those woes&nbsp; before they grow strong enough to take hold&nbsp; of&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/poetry\/bury-your-woes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Bury Your Woes&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-299","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299","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=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/16-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/299\/revisions\/409"}],"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=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}