{"id":1385,"date":"2021-08-20T22:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T22:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2021-08-20T22:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T22:14:50","slug":"unsettled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/2021\/08\/20\/unsettled\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsettled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Featured in 2015 Spring Issue of Rambunctious<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Unsettled\nMelissa Gao, '17\n\nRed velvet seats all empty,\nexcept for mine\nAll the red seats are empty,\nexcept for mine\nAin't no fairytales playing on the movie screen, just\nbits of reality, in my mind.\n\nPast closing hours, gotta lock up\nthe movie theater\nPast closing hours, gonna lock up\nthe theater\nBut the memories pull me back\nto the current character.\n\nThoughts crash, lash, smash, bash,\nclash in my brain\nSo many thoughts crashin', lashin',&nbsp;\nsmashin', bashin', crashin' in my brain\nMy endless thoughts, I can't restrain.\n\nWill or Strength\u2014\na battle for control\nWill or Strength\u2014a battle for&nbsp;\ncontrol\nRaging within my tired soul.\n\nThe beat of war drums sound,\n'round my head\nBeating of war drums\nsound, 'round my head\nA nightmare of no dreaming in my bed.\n\nCan't stop the storm of feelings, colors,\ndrama\nI can't stop this storm&nbsp;\nof feelings, colors and drama\nDon't want the insomnia.\n\nShots going off outside\nthe theater door\nShots are going off\noutside this theater door\nHeat is escalating within this war.\n\nStrength forces sheep soldiers,\nto silently slink into the theater\nStrength forces soldier sheep to silently&nbsp;\nslink, into the theater\nBehind my eyelids, only numbers linger.\n\nRoll the credits,&nbsp;\nmovie's over\nRoll the credits, the movie is\nover\nDon't want this war\u2014strength\nis the victor.\n\nThe movie theater, locked up by the\nsheep regime\nThe movie theater is locked\nby the sheep regime\nLead me\ninto the land of dreams.\n\nclosed doors, no war, turned off\nthe lights\nclosed doors, no war, turned\noff the lights\nsmile on my&nbsp;\nsleeping face\u2014a final goodnight.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Gao, &#8217;17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}