{"id":822,"date":"2012-11-14T22:27:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T03:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?p=822"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T19:43:13","slug":"let-it-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/2012\/11\/14\/let-it-go\/","title":{"rendered":"LET IT GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=paula&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">PAULA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should let it all go<br \/>\nThe cherished tears, the laughs I fake<br \/>\nThose glamorous smiles of yours<br \/>\nWere never mine to make<br \/>\nIt\u2019s like someone took a knife<br \/>\nAnd cut my heart out of my chest<br \/>\nYou know what?<br \/>\nScratch that.<br \/>\nYou can\u2019t cut something out of<br \/>\nsomewhere it never was.<br \/>\nFor, the life altering organ of mine<br \/>\nWas in the hands of the best<br \/>\nthose strong, calloused hands<br \/>\nEntangled with mine<br \/>\nKept me safe.<br \/>\nThey held me near<br \/>\nAnd I pushed them away!<br \/>\nI was scared of what would happen<br \/>\nIf I stayed<br \/>\nIf I opened up again<br \/>\nLet someone in<br \/>\nAnd allowed my nightmares to come out and play<br \/>\nMy past changed the way I think<br \/>\nMy future just doesn\u2019t seem the same<br \/>\nHow can I move on<br \/>\nWhen my feet are rooted<br \/>\nTo where we first kissed<br \/>\nOn the sidewalk, in the pouring rain<br \/>\nI know they say if you truly love<br \/>\nSomeone<br \/>\nLet them go<br \/>\nIf they come back, keep \u2018em.<br \/>\nIf not, they were never yours in<br \/>\nThe first place<br \/>\nBut, it\u2019s just so damn hard<br \/>\nSeeing her in your arms<br \/>\nAnd knowing<br \/>\nThat\u2019s where I should be<br \/>\nSo,<br \/>\nI suppose,<br \/>\nAll that\u2019s left to do<br \/>\nIs sit back and wait patiently.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/?s=paula&amp;submit.x=0&amp;submit.y=0\">PAULA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should let it all go<br \/> The cherished tears, the laughs I fake<br \/> Those glamorous smiles of yours<br \/> Were never mine to make<br \/> It\u2019s like someone took a knife<br \/> And cut my heart out of my chest<br \/> You know what?<br \/> Scratch that.<br \/> You [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[315],"tags":[79493],"coauthors":[79521],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-paula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/exclusiveink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}