{"id":739,"date":"2006-11-03T11:24:47","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1991\/9-3-91-fear\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:24:47","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:24:47","slug":"9-3-91-fear","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=739","title":{"rendered":"9-3-91 Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=739\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Indianapolis,Indiana<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where you afraid?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Did it scare you?&#8221;<br \/>\nPeople ask you to join them<br \/>\nSo lonely they will not be<br \/>\nCheap tourists looking for a group rate on fear<br \/>\n(Excursions leave three times daily)<br \/>\nMine and theirs need not be the same<br \/>\nWe laugh and cry when we hear<br \/>\nWhat others around us hate and fear.<\/p>\n<p>For now it is not death or pain<br \/>\nInevitable,relative &#8220;tough I&#8221; say<br \/>\nMy ride there&#8217;s room for only one<br \/>\nAll full this hardened battered craft<br \/>\nAcross the river Styx<br \/>\nTo Gilligan&#8217;s Island,I suppose<br \/>\nAre my fears so insignificant?<\/p>\n<p>I fear I may not write someday<br \/>\nand grow my spirit higher<br \/>\nI fear I will not find the words<br \/>\nto open doors ahead<br \/>\nI fear my head will beat my heart<br \/>\nor follow them out of order<br \/>\nI fear I&#8217;ll never be intimate<br \/>\nwith any one or thing<br \/>\nI fear that all I&#8217;ve had&#8217;s a fluke<\/p>\n<p>God will catch up,take away<br \/>\nThe beauty,subtle moments,irony<br \/>\nMemory,the illusion<br \/>\nThat what I&#8217;ve felt was all wrong<br \/>\nThat I never loved or wanted<br \/>\nThat passion never visited<br \/>\nThe pain of her eyes turning away<br \/>\nThe heat of a hand brushing my neck<br \/>\nRising gooseflesh from the smell of passing beauty<br \/>\nGenuine deeds deemed insincere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indianapolis,Indiana &#8220;Where you afraid?&#8221; &#8220;Did it scare you?&#8221; People ask you to join them So lonely they will not be Cheap tourists looking for a group rate on fear (Excursions leave three times daily) Mine and theirs need not be the same We laugh and cry when we hear What others around us hate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":724,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-bV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/739\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}