{"id":288,"date":"2024-04-26T04:14:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2024-05-02T17:53:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T17:53:52","slug":"a-depth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/poetry\/a-depth\/","title":{"rendered":"A Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">If I indeed am nothing<br \/>\nThen please tell me why I bleed<br \/>\nA lash split across my side<br \/>\nI still feel it when I sleep<br \/>\nHow deep the mark<br \/>\nIt comes to be<br \/>\nI let it sink<br \/>\nDown into me<br \/>\nWhy would I turn?<br \/>\nWhen all occurs<br \/>\nAnd all begot<br \/>\nFalls into nerves<br \/>\nThe lowest point, forever\u2019s woe<br \/>\nInside me where I do no know<br \/>\nDeeper it goes<br \/>\nNot even hope<br \/>\nCould yet escape<br \/>\nThe depths of me<br \/>\nA void between<br \/>\nall I\u2019ve ever come to know<br \/>\nWill slip away<br \/>\nI seem to face the same morning<br \/>\nthough I\u2019ve shed all parts of me<br \/>\nSo too the fears I did once dread<br \/>\nAnd Though by breadth I\u2019m memory<br \/>\nIt seems my cells do not forget<br \/>\nA wound encoded in tissue<br \/>\nA flaw forever burning clear<br \/>\nAnd All my waking moments learn how much it means<br \/>\nThis finite hurt<br \/>\nWon\u2019t define me<br \/>\nBelow a rock I will defy<br \/>\nFor seconds most I will be fine<br \/>\nYet looking down<br \/>\nNo hope escapes the fight in me<br \/>\nThe scar outlasts my grasp in time<br \/>\nA downward slope I slip away to the divine<br \/>\nFinally free<br \/>\nAs I have always dreamt to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I indeed am nothing Then please tell me why I bleed A lash split across my side I still feel it when I sleep How deep the mark It comes to be I let it sink Down into me Why would I turn? When all occurs And all begot Falls into nerves The lowest&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"toivo-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/poetry\/a-depth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Depth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-288","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions\/424"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}