{"id":94,"date":"2012-02-23T20:59:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2012-02-23T20:59:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T03:59:34","slug":"wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If life has been for me a spring<\/p>\n<p>Wound round and round<\/p>\n<p>Every good deed anchoring me to here and now<\/p>\n<p>Every laugh and smile another turn<\/p>\n<p>Every brave act<\/p>\n<p>Right decision<\/p>\n<p>Proud moment<\/p>\n<p>Decent outcome<\/p>\n<p>Every held hand<\/p>\n<p>Closed eye kiss<\/p>\n<p>Sense of accomplishment<\/p>\n<p>If it has all served to wind me here<\/p>\n<p>Tighter and tighter<\/p>\n<p>Each strand pushing against the last<\/p>\n<p>A cocoon of bliss that bubbles against the<\/p>\n<p>Ghastly miasma of outer world<\/p>\n<p>Then this moment of unraveling seems poised<\/p>\n<p>A pit of defeat just ahead of my well placed feet<\/p>\n<p>A precipice with no guard rail<\/p>\n<p>No signage and<\/p>\n<p>No bottom<\/p>\n<p>Here I go over the edge<\/p>\n<p>Balloons popping<\/p>\n<p>Wings burning<\/p>\n<p>Stomach churning as my descent begins<\/p>\n<p>I love my wife<\/p>\n<p>My children<\/p>\n<p>My friends<\/p>\n<p>My family<\/p>\n<p>Yet my screams they must not hear<\/p>\n<p>My fear they must not taste<\/p>\n<p>Stoic and strong<\/p>\n<p>I drop and the walls become visual taffy<\/p>\n<p>Rushing past my airborne self<\/p>\n<p>All that prep<\/p>\n<p>All that fantastic drive<\/p>\n<p>Lost in an instant<\/p>\n<p>Taken and burned<\/p>\n<p>Left floating above the spectacle<\/p>\n<p>Like so much ash<\/p>\n<p>I can only fall into my loved ones and<\/p>\n<p>Pray they do not break<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harry Fagel 2009<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If life has been for me a spring Wound round and round Every good deed anchoring me to here and now Every laugh and smile another turn Every brave act Right decision Proud moment Decent outcome Every held hand Closed eye kiss Sense of accomplishment If it has all served to wind me here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fagelman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}