{"id":447,"date":"2012-06-17T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T20:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2012-06-17T21:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T20:09:23","slug":"heart-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/heart-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Doctor! Doctor?<br \/>\nWhy do your steps falter?<br \/>\nDo I see you shudder?<br \/>\nWhy do you stand and gape<br \/>\nWhy does your hand grip your neck at the nape?<\/p>\n<p>My heart is strong<br \/>\nMy flesh is young<br \/>\nBut what ails me<br \/>\nLies deep within<\/p>\n<p>Thirty and more years I have lugged it around!<br \/>\nFifteen years it watched me grow<br \/>\nThen it stirred and demanded food<br \/>\nI have offered it for free yet no takers<\/p>\n<p>Should I blame them?<br \/>\nWhen instincts warn of cocktail of spite and vengeance<br \/>\nOf retorts that hint at wickedness in secret places<br \/>\nAnd visage far from those of knights renown<br \/>\nBut if truth be told<br \/>\nI have fed it words, hoping it would bud<br \/>\nand birth fruits fit to be shown<\/p>\n<p>So now, a prize I have placed on it<br \/>\nDo not ask me for a figure<br \/>\nMake me an offer<br \/>\nAnd let&#8217;s see where it goes<\/p>\n<p>Come with your knife and your saw<br \/>\nHack it out and take it with you<br \/>\nFor what use is it to me?<br \/>\nExcept an harbinger of sleepless nights<br \/>\nAnd wishful longings<\/p>\n<p>I have daydreamed till I dreamed of days without dreams<br \/>\nThere is no hope in it<br \/>\nI have searched every nook and cranny<br \/>\nTake it as yours<br \/>\nDo not tell me if it works<br \/>\nI am tired of the pain of false starts<br \/>\nI am fed up of the despair of no starts<\/p>\n<p>I have fed it songs of love and pairings<br \/>\nBut songs don&#8217;t become flesh<br \/>\nAnd the caress of strings pale before a single touch of a slender hand<\/p>\n<p>It has said the wrong things<br \/>\nIt has given voice to strange things<br \/>\nIts lips have brought nothing but trouble<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Give it over there&#8221; is all I have heard<br \/>\n&#8220;I shall have it!&#8221; escapes no feminine lips<\/p>\n<p>It wants more than friendship<br \/>\nSo it stands in the rain and looks longingly at you<br \/>\nBut you are ensconced inside where it is warm and nice<br \/>\nBut I have sinned, so I expect I will pay the price<\/p>\n<p>So we come to the crux of the matter<br \/>\nWith effort it casts its web of desire<br \/>\nIts strength flimsier than gossamer<br \/>\nCatches nothing but air and dreams<\/p>\n<p>Take it now!<br \/>\nTake it far from me!<br \/>\nForget the prize<br \/>\nIf without heart I would have peace<br \/>\nThen take it and let me be done with it<br \/>\nMaybe I can then close my eyes<br \/>\nAnd sleep like the dead<br \/>\nNo dreams to flutter my lids<br \/>\nIf only for a night<\/p>\n<p>Doctor! . . .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctor! Doctor? Why do your steps falter? Do I see you shudder? Why do you stand and gape Why does your hand grip your neck at the nape? My heart is strong My flesh is young But what ails me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/heart-for-sale\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}