{"id":10336,"date":"2024-03-09T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10336"},"modified":"2024-05-22T01:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T01:45:26","slug":"betty-by-melody-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/betty-by-melody-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty by Melody  Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img data-dominant-color=\"7d7b6c\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1600\/900;--dominant-color: #7d7b6c;\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65826 not-transparent lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/betty-by-moody-creek-1-jpg.webp\" alt=\"betty by Melody creek (1\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/betty-by-moody-creek-1-jpg.webp 1600w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/betty-by-moody-creek-1-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/betty-by-moody-creek-1-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/betty-by-moody-creek-1-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/betty-by-moody-creek-1-1536x864.webp 1536w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Betty<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Melody\u00a0 Creek<\/p>\n<p>I miss Cranium and the way we shared clothes and<br \/>\nthat time at the beach when you pierced your nose<br \/>\nand what your mom said when you called to let her know.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the 15 hour plane ride, maybe it was even more<br \/>\nand I miss eating carbonara by the Greek shore<br \/>\nsinging Wicked, waking up the people next door.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when you introduced us and at first it was fun<br \/>\nbut somewhere between introductions and wedding plans I was done<br \/>\nand now I\u2019m the one with a song left unsung.<\/p>\n<p>You get to move on with a conversation left unsaid<br \/>\nand I get to deal with the feeling of being misled<br \/>\nand this extra loneliness built up in my head.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it\u2019s my heart.<\/p>\n<p>And even though I told myself I would never go through,<br \/>\nthat I would die a hundred times before it became something I would do<br \/>\nI can\u2019t help but to admit that I do miss you.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it\u2019s just a little.<\/p>\n<p>And even though we both are responsible<br \/>\nfor hurt words that now seems it was so resolvable<br \/>\nwhat hurts the most is I know you don\u2019t miss me in the<br \/>\nslightest<br \/>\nway<br \/>\npossible.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Melody Creek resides in East Tennessee where you can often find her writing poetry, reading thrillers, and making art. She has been published in Snapdragon Journal, Cajun Mutt Press, NY Literary Magazine, and more. Follow her on Facebook and check out her book \u201cAnxiety, Depression, and Other Sorts of Trauma\u201d on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melody Creek resides in East Tennessee where you can often find her writing poetry, reading thrillers, and making art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contemporary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}