{"id":510,"date":"2022-04-05T21:43:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2022-04-05T21:43:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T21:43:18","slug":"hand-why-do-you-tremble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Hand, Why Do you Tremble?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hand, why do you tremble?<br>Why do you draw back, hesitate?<br>For months you have assembled<br>This jigsaw of truth. Piece by piece.<br>Can\u2019t you lay them out and place them down<br>Before those who first evoked such fear?<br>And what of fear? What calls it up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>They are not hearers, but sneerers and will<br>Find a way to break apart the pieces I have<br>Pieced together in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet it is not dark, but light. And knowing the<br>Dark has been my source of light.<br>Funny how dark seems light and<br>Light seems dark. Because<br>The light breaks up the dark and reveals it<br>Utterly senseless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thus, in the dark there is sense,<br>And in the light only the sense that the<br>Dark has no sense at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soul, I cannot mend with sense<br>That which is rent without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">1 October 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hand, why do you tremble?Why do you draw back, hesitate?For months you have assembledThis jigsaw of truth. Piece by piece.Can\u2019t you lay them out and place them downBefore those who first evoked such fear?And what of fear? What calls it up? They are not hearers, but sneerers and willFind a way to break apart the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[384,103,175,211,25,85,168],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-confusion","tag-darkness","tag-emotional-abuse","tag-gaslighting","tag-grief","tag-poetry","tag-spiritual-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bexroden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}