{"id":106814,"date":"2013-05-15T16:34:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106814\/sanctity-of-tears\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T16:34:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:34:57","slug":"sanctity-of-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/106814\/sanctity-of-tears\/","title":{"rendered":"~Sanctity of Tears~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/s346.photobucket.com\/albums\/p406\/julesgarden\/Poetry%203\/?action=view&amp;current=Surreal_Gate-1-1-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net\/safe_image.php?d=AQDZf3TLDD8ArptY&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi346.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp406%2Fjulesgarden%2FPoetry%25203%2FSurreal_Gate-1-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>~Sanctity of Tears~<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Have you been ordained by God,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8230;the creator?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If not I&#8217;ll talk to you&#8230; later.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Have you swam in the holiness,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The sanctity,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The loneliness,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8230;of my tears?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Have you cared,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To dip into the enlightenment there?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Coming from spiritual wells,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8230;of soul.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>No, this baptismal,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Has been my own. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/p>\n<p>Have you ridden my madness,<\/p>\n<p>Or,<\/p>\n<p>Stepped into the darkness of my sadness,<\/p>\n<p>And left a footprint there?<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do not seek forgiveness,<\/p>\n<p>Any given,<\/p>\n<p>Needn&#8217;t be begged.<\/p>\n<p>I do not seek salvation,<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;perhaps yours,<\/p>\n<p>Not mine.<\/p>\n<p>Therein lies the irony of time.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And time,<\/p>\n<p>Has made me as I am today.<\/p>\n<p>And that,<\/p>\n<p>Has been my sacrifice,<\/p>\n<p>My price to pay.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I seek acceptance,<\/p>\n<p>Not yours,<\/p>\n<p>My own.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, my own.<\/p>\n<p>As I stand solitare.<\/p>\n<p>Alone.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Swimming in the sanctity,<\/p>\n<p>Neck deep in my reality,<\/p>\n<p>Of my tears,<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;alone.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9jgard 2010<\/p>\n<p>2\/2\/2010<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~Sanctity of Tears~ Have you been ordained by God, &#8230;the creator? If not I&#8217;ll talk to you&#8230; later. Have you swam in the holiness, The sanctity, The loneliness, &#8230;of my tears? Have you cared, To dip into the enlightenment there? Coming from spiritual wells, &#8230;of soul. No, this baptismal, Has been my own. Have you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4,5],"class_list":["post-106814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poetry","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}