{"id":8271,"date":"2019-12-30T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2019-12-22T17:30:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T00:30:57","slug":"always-a-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=8271","title":{"rendered":"Always a Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Boris Kustodiev – http:\/\/www.zeller.de, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=15720327<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Christina\u00c2\u00a0Sng<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always a price to be paid
For everything a man gives you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
My mother told me when
I was old enough to listen.

But of course, I was foolish
Like most girls in love,
Never noticing the jaded faces
Of those long-suffering wives

Of the elders in the village,
Trying to muster a smile
When they heard
I was to be married.

I regaled them with stories
Of his time as a Beast and
How my love changed him
Back into a Prince.

They bowed their heads
And bit their lips,
Telling me a child
Would be my life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blessing

And truly, she is,
My beloved daughter,
Beside me here in the tower,
The same age as I was

When my mother
First warned me
Of what I know now
To be true,

For my Prince
Is once again a Beast
Despite his human face,
Snarling and slashing

With his once-clawed paws,
Throwing me across rooms
If I ever dared to be brave,
Standing up to his angry tirades,

Defending our daughter
From his scorn,\u00c2\u00a0
And comforting her in my arms
When he was done and gone.

I realize now there was a reason\u00c2\u00a0
Why he had been cursed:
To show the world\u00c2\u00a0
The Beast really was his true face,

For nature does not simply
Conjure beasts out of thin air.\u00c2\u00a0
The monster could never
Have been summoned

If he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t already there.
Too late for me now, trapped
And caged at the mercy
And whim of a mad king.

No long thick braid\u00c2\u00a0
Or a dragon to escape,
But an endless fall
Down the tower.

But perhaps\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 wait.
One day,
We might be able
To flee this place.

My daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hair
Has now reached her waist.<\/font face=\"arial\"><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christina\u00c2\u00a0Sng \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always a price to be paidFor everything a man gives you.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dMy mother told me whenI was old enough to listen.But of course, I was foolishLike most girls in love,Never noticing the jaded facesOf those long-suffering wivesOf the elders in the village,Trying to muster a smileWhen they heardI was to be married.I regaled them […]<\/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-8271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271","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=8271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10597,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8271\/revisions\/10597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}