{"id":1256,"date":"2007-08-25T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T13:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/writings\/2007\/08\/25\/depression-laughs-me\/"},"modified":"2007-08-25T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T13:23:04","slug":"depression-laughs-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/08\/depression-laughs-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression laughs @ me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depression laughs @ me<br \/>\ni put my head in my lap<br \/>\nas tears of rage &amp; pain<br \/>\nseep from my eyes<\/p>\n<p>i sit in a dull corridor<br \/>\nwith the light from a window resting on me<br \/>\nfootsteps go by &amp; footsteps go by<br \/>\nnot a gentle hand around<\/p>\n<p>Despair reaches up from his hole<br \/>\nand opens wide his arms<br \/>\nlaughing and mocking me<br \/>\nas he comes to pull me down<\/p>\n<p>His minions heckle &amp; jeer<br \/>\narmed to the teeth<br \/>\nthey come for blood<br \/>\nand my destruction<\/p>\n<p>I stood and stuffed all<br \/>\nmyself-pity and feeling down<br \/>\ndonned my armour<br \/>\nturning my feelings into strength<br \/>\nI stood and faced<br \/>\nthe armies of Despair,<br \/>\nDepression, (&amp; the pain inside)<\/p>\n<p>I bellow a mighty roar<br \/>\nand swing my blade into<br \/>\nthe first of these unlucky fools<br \/>\nmany hesitate &amp; that is their last mistake<\/p>\n<p>they fall like wheat<br \/>\nbefore a sickle<br \/>\nDespair gawks at my resolve &amp;<br \/>\nthe number of troops that are falling<\/p>\n<p>I shout and sing<br \/>\nmy battle cry \u2013<br \/>\nI cannot let my humanity be my downfall.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">wil becker<br \/>\n1997.07.15\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/us\/\" rel=\"license\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/images\/public\/somerights20.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression laughs @ me i put my head in my lap as tears of rage &amp; pain seep from my eyes i sit in a dull corridor with the light from a window resting on me footsteps go by &amp; footsteps go by not a gentle hand around Despair reaches up from his hole and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}