{"id":876,"date":"2014-12-16T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/povojournal\/?p=876"},"modified":"2014-12-16T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T18:47:00","slug":"whom-do-i-seek-to-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/whom-do-i-seek-to-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Whom do I seek to please?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whom do I seek to please, for whom do I live?<br>Am I for the one that makes me breathe<br>Or I serve the one that makes me grieve?<br>Have I forsaken my chosen path,<br>Do I follow the road to wrath?<br>Is this an ignorance of the mind?<br>Is my spirit willing to fight?<br>To what am I exposing my soul to?<br>Is it venomous what I let my ears listen to?<br>How else can I explain the filth surging through the flimsiness of my brain?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it because of the poison I yearn to empty down my oesophagus?<br>It devours my dignity consumes my sense of shame<br>Leaves me uncovered, exposed, a mere weakling<br>Even the feet I\u2019ve known for eternity start to deny me<br>My eyes have become heavy with gloom<br>Even they reject this destruction I have brought upon myself<br>This toxin I\u2019ve guzzled down has manipulated my brains<br>To think this is what its all about<br>Being in \u2018high\u2019 spirits<br>This hazard to my soul<br>I let it control me<br>Whom do I seek to please?<br>Am I king or slave?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whom do I seek to please, for whom do I live?Am I for the one that makes me breatheOr I serve the one that makes me grieve?Have I forsaken my chosen path,Do I follow the road to wrath?Is this an ignorance of the mind?Is my spirit willing to fight?To what am I exposing my soul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poetry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Whom do I seek to please? 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