{"id":20440,"date":"2023-01-01T07:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=20440"},"modified":"2022-12-27T10:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T15:18:17","slug":"evolving-emotions-sadness-poetry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2023\/01\/01\/evolving-emotions-sadness-poetry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolving Emotions: Sadness- Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anywhere<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Most days I sit and think<\/p>\n<p>about how I don&#8217;t want to be here<\/p>\n<p>nor there<\/p>\n<p>or anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Neither heaven<\/p>\n<p>nor hell,<\/p>\n<p>earth,<\/p>\n<p>limbo,<\/p>\n<p>a place beyond,<\/p>\n<p>somewhere I can&#8217;t get back from,<\/p>\n<p>a plane betwixt time and space,<\/p>\n<p>a void of blank white walls,<\/p>\n<p>a pit of darkness found<\/p>\n<p>nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My lungs cave in<\/p>\n<p>like they&#8217;ll shrivel and fall<\/p>\n<p>caught by my ribs<\/p>\n<p>clinging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ambivalence arrives<\/p>\n<p>as tired tears<\/p>\n<p>drop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heavy limbs<\/p>\n<p>weighed down<\/p>\n<p>at the realization<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>that nowhere is impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Inside me is nothing<\/p>\n<p>and I cannot go there<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so I must stay<\/p>\n<p>until my days have passed<\/p>\n<p>sitting and thinking<\/p>\n<p>of a place neither here<\/p>\n<p>nor there<\/p>\n<p>or anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anywhere &nbsp; Most days I sit and think about how I don&#8217;t want to be here nor there or anywhere. &nbsp; Neither heaven nor hell, earth, limbo, a place beyond, somewhere I can&#8217;t get back from, a plane betwixt time and space, a void of blank white walls, a pit of darkness found nowhere. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":20290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1774,281,1574,15,472,476],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21688,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20440\/revisions\/21688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}