{"id":100,"date":"2022-01-19T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T08:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:30:24","slug":"soft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/19\/soft\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I spent my life being soft <br>For you.<br>I rounded all my corners <br>And smoothed all my edges. <br>I made myself small<br>Always<br>So I could fit the box<br>You said was made for me. <br>But it was made for you<br>To be comfortable with me.<br>I made myself soft<br>For you.<br>Filled myself with sugar<br>And only added spice<br>When it made me taste<br>Nice.<br>I was always so scared<br>My edges would poke through. <br>My rough, sharp, hard pieces <br>Would tear open<br>My soft smooth skin,<br>Show the truth of me, <br>Unacceptable, a fraud<br>In sheep\u2019s clothing.<br>If I let slip, even for a moment, <br>I would be seen<br>For my hard, rough, sharp <br>Self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am done being soft <br>For you.<br>I am going to be rough <br>And hard<br>And sharp<br>For me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-advanced-gutenberg-blocks-intro\"><p class=\"wp-block-advanced-gutenberg-blocks-intro__content\">Get this poem and 11 others, with accompanying artwork, in my zine, &#8220;Becoming all of me,&#8221; available for free download at <a href=\"https:\/\/shardsofblue.gumroad.com\/l\/becoming-poems-portraits\">GumRoad<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poem about allowing myself to be myself after realizing I am transmasculine. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[20,33,21,26,37],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queer-issues","tag-gender","tag-poetry","tag-trans","tag-transgender","tag-transmasculine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shardsofblue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}