{"id":2088,"date":"2007-07-28T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T23:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2014-01-01T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T00:20:53","slug":"my-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/28\/my-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"My Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are my foundation;<br \/>\nAs you crumble, I fall.<\/p>\n<p>I see you bent and dying.<br \/>\nI see you weak and alone.<br \/>\nI try to reach out, to protect you,<br \/>\nin a sallowing hope that<br \/>\nthis battle can be won,<br \/>\ntogether.<\/p>\n<p>Grasping at retreats, I am tired.<br \/>\nI escape, rejuvenate, but<br \/>\nam drawn back in, returning to<br \/>\nthe fate to which I am<br \/>\nforever committed. <\/p>\n<p>These walls bind and blind me;<br \/>\nI cannot see a future or path<br \/>\nfrom within them;<br \/>\nI must leave, but cannot. <\/p>\n<p>I am nothing without my foundation.<br \/>\nAs you crumble, I fall.<\/p>\n<p>Why did you allow<br \/>\nthis festering sore<br \/>\nthis malfeasant practice,<br \/>\nthis self-destruction of heart and mind<br \/>\nto grow and grow?<\/p>\n<p>Why did I?<\/p>\n<p>You destroy yourself.<br \/>\nBut you are my foundation:<br \/>\nAs you crumble, I fall.<\/p>\n<p>Only the emptiness we face together,<br \/>\ncan overcome that we face alone.<br \/>\nOnly the support we give each other<br \/>\ncan bridge the empty chasm before us;<\/p>\n<p>Only you are my foundation<br \/>\nAs you rebuild yourself,<br \/>\nI stand tall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are my foundation;<br \/> As you crumble, I fall.<\/p>\n<p>I see you bent and dying.<br \/> I see you weak and alone.<br \/> I try to reach out, to protect you,<br \/> in a sallowing hope that<br \/> this battle can be won,<br \/> together.<\/p>\n<p>Grasping at retreats, I am tired.<br \/> I escape, rejuvenate, but<br \/> am drawn [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}