{"id":42,"date":"2023-01-02T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/?p=42"},"modified":"2023-01-02T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T15:16:38","slug":"past-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/2023\/01\/02\/past-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Past life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I let you go promising ; to never let you back in.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I refused to visit the graveyard.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Somehow you kept trying to grow back into my heart.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I thought the years had brought me peace.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I could not hear your pleas.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I woke up awhile ago.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I understood that I had not known or understood your true nature.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I am opening, slowly<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">but, maybe that&#8217;s only illusion.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Perhaps, having grown old alone,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I have forgotten the abyss I kept falling in.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">I have not forgotten the fear of falling.<\/span><\/span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43\" src=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/small-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/small-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/small-1024x998.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/small-768x748.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/small-1536x1496.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/small-2048x1995.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/small-1568x1528.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/ourartsmagazine.com\/musingsofamadman\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/01\/small-600x585.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I let you go promising ; to never let you back in. 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