{"id":1577,"date":"2024-11-28T18:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T18:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2024-12-05T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:45:54","slug":"cleverreign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/cleverreign\/","title":{"rendered":"Clever Reign By Thomas Oraskovich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tLeaves wither,<br \/>\nSkeletal fingers reaching,<br \/>\nPointing to where the dead lie hidden.<br \/>\nThe earth grows cold, shifts as if listening-<br \/>\nAncient, waiting; it&#8217;s slower and darker.\nI descend to the realm beneath,<br \/>\nA so-called dominion engulfed with misery.<br \/>\nThey call it a place of despair,<br \/>\nWhile lingering above, untouched by decay.<br \/>\nGazing from perfect thrones, blind to truth.\nMy existence twisted in their careless visions.<br \/>\nForged in two-faced myths,<br \/>\nWithout my consent.<br \/>\nDemeter&#8217;s discarded daughter,<br \/>\nLeft to wander between realms and roots,<br \/>\nHades&#8217; silent wife,<br \/>\nA jewel to polish his dead, rotting heart.\nThey call me clever, as if that&#8217;s all I am,<br \/>\nBut soon they&#8217;ll know,<br \/>\nThe velvet underworld calls to me,<br \/>\nAnd me alone.\nTheir lies cast it as a crimson prison of agony.<br \/>\nBut I know the truth-<br \/>\nThey are nothing but a veil,<br \/>\nDeceit to smother the fury of spirits forgotten.<br \/>\nLet them drown in the five rivers,<br \/>\nAnd see why the dead never fade.\nThey have never tasted the pomegranate,<br \/>\nThe choice of liberation.<br \/>\nBlood-red seeds of defiance.<br \/>\nEach bite binds me,<br \/>\nYet with each, I claim my own name.\nI am more than their fate,<br \/>\nMore than the myths they wrote into my skin.<br \/>\nEvery season must die,<br \/>\nAnd this season will not return.\nI become what they feared-<br \/>\nA pulse of life amid the remnants of decay.\nAnd I will rise, not as the stolen girl,<br \/>\nBut as a chthonic queen, born of my own choosing.\n\t<p>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n<p>I once moment-by-moment experienced a plane nose-diving from the sky. I was young, yet they put me in the copilot seat of a single-engine plane whose steering wheel resembled that of the video games I played. Maybe it was not the pilot&#8217;s smartest decision.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaves wither, Skeletal fingers reaching, Pointing to where the dead lie hidden. The earth grows cold, shifts as if listening- Ancient, waiting; it&#8217;s slower and darker. I descend to the realm beneath, A so-called dominion engulfed with misery. They call it a place of despair, While lingering above, untouched by decay. Gazing from perfect thrones, blind to truth. My existence twisted in their careless visions. Forged in two-faced myths, Without my consent. Demeter&#8217;s discarded daughter, Left to wander between realms &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Clever Reign By Thomas Oraskovich\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/28\/cleverreign\/#more-1577\" aria-label=\"Read more about Clever Reign By Thomas Oraskovich\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpmdr_menu":0,"wpmdr_menu_extended":{"individualPostRemove":1,"individualPostRemoveDate":1,"individualPostRemoveAuthor":1,"individualPostYoastRemovePublished":1,"individualPostYoastRemoveModified":1},"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guai-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitchpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}