{"id":123,"date":"2018-09-02T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T01:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmictigre.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2020-05-09T16:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T16:14:43","slug":"molds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/molds\/","title":{"rendered":"Molds: A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I&#8217;ve been deep in my feels lately, trying to full understand the life I am living.\u00a0 I think it can be so easy for us to fall into traps of shame, fear, or even self-hatred because we feel &#8216;different&#8217; from what ideals society projects onto us. Over the past 10 months, I have been intentional in doing the work to liberate myself and live authentically.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>While I was journaling about this, I drew inspiration from a goddess shrine in Ubud, Bali.\u00a0 I thought about her, legs spread in a squat, arms pulled back, tongue and breasts bare as she stares at all who pass her line of vision.\u00a0 Some may say she is a fool, but I believe she is confident in who she is and lives without fear. She is the kind of woman I am working to become.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As I was looking for a bookmark the other day, the synchronicity found one on the page left on I wrote this.\u00a0 After re-reading it and fussing over things like its length and form, I finally decided it was ready to be shared just as is.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>She is tense<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Her power stalled<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>In her hips<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Things left unsaid<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Her body pregnant<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>With a voice<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Never able to slip<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Past her lips<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Trapped in the strain<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The pain of being bound<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>To traditions<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Conditions<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Are suffocating her<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Isolation<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>She cannot fit in<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>But she was not meant to<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Her life is not<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Digestible<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Basic<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Popular<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Mainstream<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>She is all she is<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Raw, real<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Rough, resilient<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Thought-provoking<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Invaluable<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Never playing small<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Rebelling<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Doing what she wants<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Turning trauma into gold<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>She breaks all the molds<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cosmictigre.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/04\/be91e4a0-d2dc-4ab9-b888-0a0fa8d692d1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poetry inspired by my time in Bali, June 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[408,18,20],"tags":[34,79,148,165],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spirituality","category-travel","category-writing","tag-bali","tag-empowerment","tag-poetry","tag-self-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejachaniah.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}