Statues possess such a harrowingly stunning fa\u00e7ade.
\nTheir danger is wrapped around their beauty:
\nA still beauty that sometimes reminds me of your masquerade.
\nMany times, I’ve wondered if people could really fall in love with them;
\nAnd I only got my answer when I fell in love with the image of you.
\nAgain, I’d ask myself how it would\u2019ve been possible to feel for marble in museums,
\nBut I look at you and remember I felt for all the stones that make you.
\nYou couldn’t be any more unreachable, any more distant.
\nYou only left me a door half open,
\nPeeking only when you want to take advantage of me.
\nYou stand on your pedestal, never looking down, never glancing shy of your walls.
\nAnd I was left waiting for someone who couldn’t see what I could be.
\nI was waiting to be someone you could count on, a friend you could rely on,
\nBut you never felt the need to show me vulnerability.
\nYou stopped yourself from exposing more to me.
\nYou built yourself an armor of bronze and gold.
\nImpenetrable and dazzling, I couldn\u2019t look away;
\nLike a moth to a flame, I was drawn back again and again.
\nThe more I wanted to get away, the more I was pulled toward pain.
\nI was cut by your carnelian sharpness,
\nAnd I bled in ways I never knew possible against your blade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Statues possess such a harrowingly stunning fa\u00e7ade. Their danger is wrapped around their beauty: A still beauty that sometimes reminds me of your masquerade. Many times, I’ve wondered if people could really fall in love with them; And I only got my answer when I fell in love with the image of you. Again, I’d … Continue reading “Statues Quo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[6],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"authors":[{"term_id":6,"user_id":5,"is_guest":0,"slug":"rimtouaghed04","display_name":"Rim Touaghed","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/58e17d1118eae3b2c5859a39cbea129dc24e4ec758d883a03934593e02ba33d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Touaghed","first_name":"Rim","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=445"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}