{"id":171,"date":"2023-03-13T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=171"},"modified":"2023-03-13T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:07:08","slug":"breaking-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Free"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a beast now. I am a divine scenery<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am everything I should be, everything I shouldn\u2019t be<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am the blood stains on your black tuxedo<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The hostage that ran away<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dear change, dear revolution<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019re tempting but you\u2019re scary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am not scared anymore<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I built my castle, I built my boundary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With every little ache in the middle of the night<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every painting in my pain gallery<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My feminine hands have grown stronger<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Enough to break the chains of slavery<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To crush those gullible dreams<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To abandon the habit of our anniversary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no \u201cour\u201d anymore, there is no \u201cwe\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Only the tired distance between you and me<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Tasteless memories, not sweet, not savory<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your vainness gave me bravery<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your ignorance charged my battery<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My logic was love, yours was burglary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am grateful for the precious injury<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the humiliation of being secondary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The cruelty, the ugliness, the emotional beggary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The sadism, the mess, the happiness robbery<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019m luminous and legendary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now that I distinguish honesty from mockery<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They say a man should give, a woman should receive<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I say I am ready for the blessings from God\u2019s sanctuary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll bathe my heart in salt and rosemary<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll put a band-aid on my soul, burn my past\u2019s library<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll drink from the cup of pride, the cup of glory<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If now is not the time, when will be the time to break free?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am a beast now. I am a divine scenery\u00a0 I am everything I should be, everything I shouldn\u2019t be\u00a0 I am the blood stains on your black tuxedo\u00a0 The hostage that ran away\u00a0 Dear change, dear revolution\u00a0 You\u2019re tempting but you\u2019re scary\u00a0 I am not scared anymore\u00a0 I built my castle, I built my … Continue reading “Breaking Free”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[37],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse","category-poetry"],"authors":[{"term_id":37,"user_id":24,"is_guest":0,"slug":"hiba-dami","display_name":"Hiba Dami","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2ee32edc947385765c3ed601d91589819d831931cf05258be78e615f35925274?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Dami","first_name":"Hiba","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}