Watching your friend in pain is the worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The smile that lit your world slowly fading,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The laughter forgotten and memories pale<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As their skin has become,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thin and stretched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bad choices, the desperation and anger<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As they lash out against those they love and the Universe<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For cursing them, and they in turn curse you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fire and passion tinged now with darkness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A fear creeping into them that permeates their actions;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Blackening your own thoughts with worry,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As you powerlessly struggle against something you can not\nfight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And their hopelessness, their despair<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spreads into your spirit as you both slowly die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Watching your friend in pain is the worst. The smile that lit your world slowly fading, The laughter forgotten and memories pale As their skin has become, Thin and stretched. The bad choices, the desperation and anger As they lash out against those they love and the Universe For cursing them, and they in turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romancetwentyfourseven.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}