{"id":8133,"date":"2017-03-14T11:04:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T18:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=8133"},"modified":"2017-03-14T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T18:28:06","slug":"warsan-shire-poem-women-difficult-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/warsan-shire-poem-women-difficult-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Warsan Shire poem &#8211; &#8220;for women who are &#8216;difficult&#8217; to love.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>you are a horse running alone<br \/>\nand he tries to tame you<br \/>\ncompares you to an impossible highway<br \/>\nto a burning house<br \/>\nsays you are blinding him<br \/>\nthat he could never leave you<br \/>\nforget you<br \/>\nwant anything but you<br \/>\nyou dizzy him, you are unbearable<br \/>\nevery woman before or after you<br \/>\nis doused in your name<br \/>\nyou fill his mouth<br \/>\nhis teeth ache with memory of taste<br \/>\nhis body just a long shadow seeking yours<br \/>\nbut you are always too intense<br \/>\nfrightening in the way you want him<br \/>\nunashamed and sacrificial<br \/>\nhe tells you that no man can live up to the one who<br \/>\nlives in your head<br \/>\nand you tried to change didn&#8217;t you?<br \/>\nclosed your mouth more<br \/>\ntried to be softer<br \/>\nprettier<br \/>\nless volatile, less awake<br \/>\nbut even when sleeping you could feel<br \/>\nhim travelling away from you in his dreams<br \/>\nso what did you want to do love<br \/>\nsplit his head open?<br \/>\nyou can&#8217;t make homes out of human beings<br \/>\nsomeone should have already told you that<br \/>\nand if he wants to leave<br \/>\nthen let him leave<br \/>\nyou are terrifying<br \/>\nand strange and beautiful<br \/>\nsomething not everyone knows how to love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8136,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8133\/revisions\/8136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}