{"id":1134,"date":"2006-12-09T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog2\/2006\/12\/a-mothers-grief\/"},"modified":"2006-12-09T20:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-09T20:51:00","slug":"a-mothers-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/a-mothers-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mother&#8217;s Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bullet of grief<br \/>Burst through my head<br \/>Blood and tears<br \/>As I lay on my bed.<\/p>\n<p>In my mirror<br \/>A picture of you<br \/>You look like you&#8217;re trying so hard<br \/>It&#8217;s just what you do<\/p>\n<p>And then I thought<br \/>&#8220;Do you <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">want<\/span> to talk?<br \/>Is it that you just can&#8217;t?&#8221;<br \/>And my heart stopped<br \/>My face in my hands<\/p>\n<p>I could not bear<br \/>That you might want to<br \/>And all of these years<br \/>It&#8217;s what you can&#8217;t do<\/p>\n<p>Dad had that dream<br \/>You were talking to him<br \/>He said it was real<br \/>But he was crying<\/p>\n<p>Lying here still<br \/>My hand on my heart<br \/>I want to tell you<br \/>It&#8217;s okay, be who you are<\/p>\n<p>But if you are not happy<br \/>If life is too hard<br \/>I want to know that<br \/>Though it tears me apart<\/p>\n<p>I will do anything<br \/>A piece of my brain?<br \/>I don&#8217;t need you normal<br \/>But just ease your pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bullet of griefBurst through my headBlood and tearsAs I lay on my bed. In my mirrorA picture of youYou look like you&#8217;re trying so hardIt&#8217;s just what you do And then I thought&#8220;Do you want to talk?Is it that you just can&#8217;t?&#8221;And my heart stoppedMy face in my hands I could not bearThat you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-ii","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}