{"id":2221,"date":"2020-01-16T09:15:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","slug":"at-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2020\/01\/16\/at-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"At the edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_4348-pepsi-vanilla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_4348-pepsi-vanilla-1024x1015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"623\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2222\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>At the edge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>tears stream down your face<br \/>\nyou no longer care<br \/>\nno one is ever going to see you<br \/>\nthe tears keep on falling<br \/>\nbut the pain doesn&#8217;t go away<\/p>\n<p>tracing the edges<br \/>\nsee where the glue meets the glass<br \/>\nthe seal&#8217;s been made<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not like you and life<br \/>\nthis bond is connected<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;re failing to keep the pieces together<br \/>\nyou wonder if you can pick yourself up again<br \/>\nyour not wearing the old masks<br \/>\nbut the new ones work just the same<\/p>\n<p>pour a drop, maybe a lot<br \/>\nit doesn&#8217;t really matter<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re going to drink it all anyway<br \/>\nyour head is pounding<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t get their words out of your head<br \/>\na blurry head makes it easier to get to tomorrow<br \/>\nis it right? Who cares<br \/>\nbut right now, you just need the pain to go away<\/p>\n<p>you wonder why the shit always falls on you<br \/>\nif you didn&#8217;t have such bad luck<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d have no luck at all<br \/>\nmaybe that&#8217;d be better<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;re failing to keep the pieces together<br \/>\nyou wonder if you can pick yourself up again<br \/>\nyour not wearing the old masks<br \/>\nbut the new ones work just the same<\/p>\n<p>you pour a lot<br \/>\nbecause nothing really matters<br \/>\nnumb the pain<br \/>\nforget the words<br \/>\nallow you to breathe again<br \/>\nmaybe it will work, maybe it won&#8217;t<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all too much right now, you need some sleep<br \/>\nyour blurry head makes it easier to get to<br \/>\nanother disappointing tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;re failing to keep the pieces together<br \/>\nyou wonder if you can pick yourself up again<br \/>\nyour not wearing the old masks<br \/>\nbut the new ones work just the same<br \/>\nthey always get you to tomorrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33,113,238,285,354],"class_list":["post-2221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-anxiety","tag-depression","tag-mental-health","tag-poetry","tag-stress"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}