{"id":62192,"date":"2015-10-26T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=62192"},"modified":"2015-10-27T09:27:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T09:27:04","slug":"war-wounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/10\/war-wounded\/","title":{"rendered":"War Wounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot see you.<br \/>\nI do not want to hear you.<\/p>\n<p>Go away\u2013<br \/>\nI have a life to live.<\/p>\n<p>I did not start this war<br \/>\nor all the others,<br \/>\nand I can\u2019t end it.<\/p>\n<p>Give me enough steel<br \/>\nto encase my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be up-armored<br \/>\nagainst these assaults by your pain.<\/p>\n<p>Then I will survive this war<br \/>\nand wait dumbly for the next one,<br \/>\nhelpless like the wounded soldier stuck<br \/>\nall night on the barbed wire<br \/>\ncrying for help,<br \/>\nexcept I won&#8217;t die at dawn.<br \/>\n_______________________________<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Tom Greening:<\/strong><\/em><em> \u201cI engage in five professional activities:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Faculty Member at Saybrook University<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Private Practice of Psychotherapy<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Clinical Professor of Psychology, UCLA<\/em><br \/>\n<em>International Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Writing (Poetry).\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomgreening.com\" >www.tomgreening.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot see you.<br \/>\nI do not want to hear you.<br \/>\nGo away\u2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}