{"id":1651,"date":"2026-02-06T22:32:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:51:31","slug":"sapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/sapped\/","title":{"rendered":"SAPPED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A piece of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grappling, grabbing, gropping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A piece of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dividing the spoils amongst you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is left of me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What morsels, crumbs are left?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me to gather to bring in?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A piece of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Little by little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Day by day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siphoned away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of your demands, requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of your emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chip away at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Piece by piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A piece of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That I may be whole again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That I may be all, again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, all of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not these pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, not these fragments that you greedily, hungrily gobble up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That you violently, smuggle, steal, take forcefully away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A piece of me. Grappling, grabbing, gropping. A piece of me. Dividing the spoils amongst you. What is left of me? For me? What morsels, crumbs are left? For me to gather to bring in? A piece of me. Little by little. Day by day. Siphoned away. Each of your demands, requests. Each of your &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/sapped\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SAPPED&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}