{"id":2247,"date":"2020-02-27T17:10:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T00:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:10","slug":"i-cant-look-back-in-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2020\/02\/27\/i-cant-look-back-in-anger\/","title":{"rendered":"I can&#8217;t look back in anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/little-me-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/little-me-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"491\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2248\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is no way to go back in time<br \/>\nto eliminate the fear<br \/>\nto stop the hands touching me<br \/>\nor keep the fists from crushing my soul<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t look back in anger<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve got to let it go<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s never too late<br \/>\nto make my peace<br \/>\nand walk away<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t change the pain<br \/>\nfrom the secret places<br \/>\nbut I don&#8217;t have to let<br \/>\nmy heart keep burning<br \/>\nI can put the fire out<br \/>\nand walk away<\/p>\n<p>I can put down<br \/>\nthe guilt, the shame,<br \/>\nthe anger, the pain<br \/>\nit&#8217;s never too late<br \/>\nto leave them behind<br \/>\nand walk away<\/p>\n<p>My life was in their hands<br \/>\nfor far too long<br \/>\nI got stuck<br \/>\nand the memories tortured me<br \/>\nI need to walk away<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time to decide<br \/>\nto leave it all behind<br \/>\nto walk away<br \/>\nI can at least do that today<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t look back<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t stay there<br \/>\nso I&#8217;m going to walk away<br \/>\nand head down the road<br \/>\ntoward 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":[139,238,285,377],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-fear","tag-mental-health","tag-poetry","tag-trauma"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}