{"id":5163,"date":"2021-03-02T21:38:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2021-03-02T21:38:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:38:06","slug":"poem-sunsets-to-ceilings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/02\/poem-sunsets-to-ceilings\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem: Sunsets to Ceilings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sunsets to ceilings, A horizon my eyes always seem to rest upon.<br>Sunsets found themselves painted with bright beautiful colors across the mesmerizing sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were hypnotizing with their colorful clouds full of the most innocent of magic,<br>Bright enough to draw anyone in and push them away,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They were beautiful.<br>Snap and the spark that once ignited the sky of\u00a0flames is gone.<br>Snap and the darkness traveled faster than the light,<br>Pushed to the brink of extinction only to be found starting at what is now my ceiling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Dark and textured like a cloak of black magic that wraps you in its arms,<br>He whispers in your ear, chills sent down your spine<br>It\u2019s cold and dark the sun is set and the ceiling now becomes your horizon,<br>A horizon where the walls meet their end is where my ceiling begins<br>This horizon that has an end, unlike the endless line where the sky meets her land and there is no\u00a0ceiling yet only infinite space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Space to grow and move and live and laugh<br>Space that a ceiling will keep you from<br>A ceiling is not only the roof to my walls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The final nail in the coffin<br>The end of all that\u2019s endless<br>It\u2019s a horizon my eyes will always seem to find in\u00a0the darkness of my room in the middle of the night\u00a0when insomnia finds its way in is where my ceiling\u00a0begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To submit a poem, email entertainment.editor@thesouthtexan.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunsets to ceilings, A horizon my eyes always seem to rest upon.Sunsets found themselves painted with bright beautiful colors across the mesmerizing sky. They were&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":5164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[195],"class_list":["post-5163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"authors":[{"term_id":195,"user_id":48,"is_guest":0,"slug":"ronni-reyna","display_name":"Ronni Reyna","avatar_url":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/16b00811e260d2068b61907787d9e60e.jpg?ver=1778633080","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5165,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/5165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesouthtexan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}