{"id":712,"date":"2014-12-17T11:17:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2014-12-17T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:17:38","slug":"misery-without-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=712","title":{"rendered":"Misery Without Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Misery Without Company<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since you left I am hurting in every way.<\/p>\n<p>The hole you left in my heart is filled with tears.<\/p>\n<p>A pool for sorrows to swim in\u00a0 each day.<\/p>\n<p>Enough misery to last me through the years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you would flip through the pages of my heart<\/p>\n<p>you would find you fill up every page.<\/p>\n<p>When you got to where you tore it apart,<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to mend it with rapid age.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have aged a year for each day you\u2019re gone.<\/p>\n<p>I should have emotions filled with rage.<\/p>\n<p>God only knows how much longer I can go on.<\/p>\n<p>I just have the feeling of betrayal, no rage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also enough sorrow to last me forever.<\/p>\n<p>The sun doesn\u2019t shine for me anymore.<\/p>\n<p>I see nothing but, wet,\u00a0 rainy weather.<\/p>\n<p>I feel too depressed to go to the store.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am losing weight for lack of food.<\/p>\n<p>I have no appetite to even eat.<\/p>\n<p>I know it all sounds so crude.<\/p>\n<p>It is the result of a heart of raw meat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve kicked it, ripped it, made it bled.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve stomped it, romped on it,<\/p>\n<p>drug it around like animal feed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, I hold onto the hope you will miss it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You will take me back once more.<\/p>\n<p>You will give me one more chance.<\/p>\n<p>You will come knocking at my door.<\/p>\n<p>Your rejection spears me like a lance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I will go on crying, dying, a little more each day.<\/p>\n<p>Always feeling that I can\u2019t go on.<\/p>\n<p>Always hoping that you will see a way<\/p>\n<p>To return to me and we will bond.&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;R. W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2013)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Misery Without Company Since you left I am hurting in every way. The hole you left in my heart is filled with tears. A pool for sorrows to swim in\u00a0 each day. Enough misery to last me through the years. &nbsp; If you would flip through the pages of my heart you would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Misery Without Company<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-lessons","category-romance","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}