{"id":684,"date":"2025-12-29T05:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/?p=684"},"modified":"2025-12-29T06:08:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:08:40","slug":"never-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/?p=684","title":{"rendered":"Never Dream (poetry)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">Hemorrhaged, whispered scenes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">vanish with no memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">They hold nothing for me to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">Never there or just ripped out<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">like daisies from the ground,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">like lungs from the shout?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">I have no voice to cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">Whom to blame but I?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">Wounded eyes fight for life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-12 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-13 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">There isn\u2019t even a B-reel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-14 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">to give off any feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\">All I see is the real.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemorrhaged, whispered scenes vanish with no memories. They hold nothing for me to see. Never there or just ripped out like daisies from the ground, like lungs from the shout? I have no voice to cry. Whom to blame but I? Wounded eyes fight for life. There isn\u2019t even a B-reel to give off any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[30,29,22],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-mental-health","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahcarbajal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}