{"id":745,"date":"2013-08-19T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2013-08-03T10:46:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T17:46:29","slug":"heart-of-glass-by-colleen-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Glass by Colleen Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Snow_queen_and_child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-748\" alt=\"Snow_queen_and_child\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Snow_queen_and_child-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Snow_queen_and_child-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Snow_queen_and_child.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HEART OF GLASS<\/p>\n<p>While my blood flowed warm and red<br \/>\ncovered by flesh as white as snow<br \/>\nyour heart ran slow and cold<br \/>\nsheathed by a molten iron will<\/p>\n<p>It was always about the heart<br \/>\nyours chiseled of frosted glass<br \/>\nlong before you gazed in that magic mirror<br \/>\nrecognized your spiteful stare could freeze the world<\/p>\n<p>Nothing could shatter your diamond hard need<br \/>\npuncture your hate, no slivers of glass or needles<br \/>\nto stitch a heart on your sleeve or back into a body<br \/>\nas devoid of empathy as of love<\/p>\n<p>You sent another to do your dirty work<br \/>\nhoping to spread the wintering of your domain<br \/>\nbut it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to stopper compassion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wellspring<br \/>\nand a kind word pierces a heart truer than arrows<\/p>\n<p>So like you to tear out hearts with words that kill<br \/>\nwith hopes to eat my laughter, devour my youth<br \/>\nmake me as dead as your feelings had become<br \/>\nand bury any guilt with proclamations of your right<\/p>\n<p>You found beauty in others distracting, covetous<br \/>\nunless you were the center of adoration<br \/>\neventually they enclosed me in crystal<br \/>\na chrysalis to preserve me from the poison you spewed<\/p>\n<p>In my death your realm was still ice and isolation<br \/>\nbut nature has a way of balancing hate and love<br \/>\nthose who mourned planted me in their hearts<br \/>\nso that I could return anew, inevitable as the seasons<\/p>\n<p>If you had only broken through the glass coffin of your fear<br \/>\nused the shards to carve a way back into the world<br \/>\nlet the pain flow until your blood was clear, your breath light<br \/>\nthen together we could have grown old, laughing<\/p>\n<p>Hearts beating in tandem with the rhythm of the seasons<br \/>\nas we marveled at the melting of the snow white realm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEART OF GLASS While my blood flowed warm and red covered by flesh as white as snow your heart ran slow and cold sheathed by a molten iron will It was always about the heart yours chiseled of frosted glass long before you gazed in that magic mirror recognized your spiteful stare could freeze the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}