I don\u2019t like to bitch about life when things get tough but sometimes one needs to express their frustrations lest they go supernova.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not gonna lie, my life has been hard the last 6 months.\u00a0Really\u00a0<\/em>hard. I\u2019m talking the people dying\/getting rejected for an application (for the fourth time)\/losing money\/legal dispute-kinda hard. Sure, all of that is life, I know, but it doesn\u2019t mean I have to take it sitting down.<\/p>\n So I wrote a poem about how I feel.<\/p>\n As with griping about hardships, I also don\u2019t like to dwell on negativity and loss. I pride myself on my incredible resilience, despite my (many) shortcomings, and thus the poem Resilience\u00a0<\/em>naturally came about from this. I hope you can find some strength in it, just as I did in writing it, and resist the forces that try so desperately to crush you.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n Resilience<\/strong><\/p>\n Holster your pistols and sheath your knives<\/p>\n The enemy fights with a spoon<\/p>\n Theirs is a war like a hole in the floor<\/p>\n Battle cries an off-coloured tune<\/p>\n Saccharine smiles on sky-kissed divides<\/p>\n One door with a gilded keyhole<\/p>\n Yet all else is bled by bashing one\u2019s head<\/p>\n Just to keep all our masters’ moats full<\/p>\n Like a shrike to the heart and ever the swift<\/p>\n Eyes laugh as the waifs beat their hulls<\/p>\n But, mounted we’d shout, “What Heaven is this?”<\/p>\n A sickness in one spread to all<\/p>\n If you are among the billions unsung<\/p>\n And time is measured in meals<\/p>\n Then batter you skull on those metal walls<\/p>\n And become much stronger than steel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t like to bitch about life when things get tough but sometimes one needs to express their frustrations lest they go supernova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbAkEb-dO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":862,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruerealm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}