{"id":678,"date":"2012-10-25T21:05:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illumination2.wordpress.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2012-10-25T21:05:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:05:27","slug":"you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/you\/","title":{"rendered":"You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bundled against the cold<br \/>\nOn a cold winters night<br \/>\nI wandered where I know not<br \/>\nIcy fingers can&#8217;t freeze my heart<br \/>\nMake me calm as the snow king<br \/>\nI think of you\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I looked at the sky<br \/>\nNo stars<br \/>\nBut they are there<br \/>\nShining their light<br \/>\nI wish I was lost among them<br \/>\nTell me how to define eternity<br \/>\nIf not a day without you\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The leaves crunch underfoot<br \/>\nThe lady smiled as I pass her by<br \/>\nDo I frighten her?<br \/>\nMaybe it is my eyes?<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nDo I frighten you?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I wage war with the sins of my past<br \/>\nThey fiddle with my mind<br \/>\nI am of late April<br \/>\nI am supposed to be strong<br \/>\nStand firm against the tempests of life<br \/>\nI will &#8211; if by you\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I pass a man<br \/>\nA mugger I thought<br \/>\n&#8220;Jump me&#8221; says my eyes<br \/>\nUse the knife in your jacket&#8217;s pocket<br \/>\nStrike before the dried blood of your summer victim rusts your trusty blade<br \/>\nHe didn&#8217;t hear me<br \/>\nOr maybe he thought he pitied me<br \/>\nBecause of you\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am back to my journey&#8217;s end<br \/>\nI opened the book<br \/>\nI turned the page<br \/>\nPaul tells me to stand firm if I could<br \/>\nBut seek if I wont<br \/>\nSo I knelt on the felt<br \/>\nClosing my eyes<br \/>\nI asked for you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Bundled against the cold On a cold winters night I wandered where I know not Icy fingers can&#8217;t freeze my heart Make me calm as the snow king I think of you\u00a0 I looked at the sky No stars &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/25\/you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,137,340,400,673,756,10,939,1057,1081],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-april","tag-blood","tag-eternity","tag-fright","tag-mugger","tag-paul","tag-sin","tag-stars","tag-war","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","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\/336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itayemi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}