{"id":2623,"date":"2013-08-10T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T14:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2013-08-27T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T11:42:56","slug":"the-last-man-in-my-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"The Last Man in My Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Masquerade_Mask_023270_\" href=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Masquerade_Mask_023270_.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto-img\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2624\" alt=\"Masquerade_Mask_023270_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Masquerade_Mask_023270_-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Masquerade_Mask_023270_-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Masquerade_Mask_023270_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><blockquote class=\"sc-blockquote\">The Last Man in My Lifetime<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> You will be the last man in my lifetime <br \/> The only dream which did not masquerade <br \/> Your voice my overture, all else pantomime <br \/> Your words deride untruth, silence tirade. <br \/> A wind that cuts the true path in a maze <br \/> My horse in battles I will never win <br \/> Who comes when all around us is ablaze <br \/> Your eyes seal wounds where all will turn or freeze <br \/> A shape who ventures mines I hide within <br \/> Eclipsing nightmares&#8217; scenes where demons seize <br \/> Until beneath your shield at last dreams spin <\/p>\n<p> When I possess so many masks I run <br \/> Your eyes will find me underneath each one<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Linda Atterton<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}