{"id":2067,"date":"2009-07-22T22:44:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T02:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2009-08-01T18:45:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-01T22:45:05","slug":"writing-prompt-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=2067","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt: Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>At the support group today we had an opportunity to do a writing exercise based on a heart prompt. This was mine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img00091.jpg\" alt=\"img00091\" title=\"img00091\" width=\"400\" height=\"288\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2068\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img00091.jpg 400w, http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/img00091-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Twisted inner heart, transparent but hidden. I once was warm and pliant, but now I am cold and hard. Blue ribbons, pink ribbons, spiderwebs flung across the cavern like an explosion.<br \/>\nIt was an explosion.<br \/>\nIt nearly killed me.<br \/>\nNearly.<br \/>\nBut now there is beauty in the mess left behind.<br \/>\nThere is life still slowly beating.<br \/>\nI am glass, waiting to shatter, but for the moment I sit in your hand, in your pocket, weighted like a large pebble. With smooth edges I slide back from where you took me. Hide me, guard me, keep me safe.<br \/>\nI wait for another day.<\/p>\n<p>Love is not a word I use very much anymore. It is too risky. Love I left behind, buried in the ground with my son.<br \/>\nIt is not gone &#8211; just missing. Maybe I&#8217;ll find it again someday.<br \/>\nThe metronome tick-tocks. It is stuck in a loop, never forward, never back, just stuck, counting down from nothing to nothing. Where do I go from here? How do I find my heart again if I&#8217;m not allowed to move? I wish I could reach out and stop the beat. Or change it. But it&#8217;s not mine to touch, my arm isn&#8217;t that long. I grow restless, frustrated. This is not my beat anymore. I start to hate it, despise it.<br \/>\nThis is not love. I&#8217;ve lost it and I need it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the support group today we had an opportunity to do a writing exercise based on a heart prompt. This was mine. Twisted inner heart, transparent but hidden. I once was warm and pliant, but now I am cold and hard. Blue ribbons, pink ribbons, spiderwebs flung across the cavern like an explosion. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[240,69,97,239],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-heart","tag-loss","tag-love","tag-writing-prompt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}