{"id":780,"date":"2014-01-04T01:16:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T00:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/?p=780"},"modified":"2014-01-04T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T14:59:58","slug":"dark-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/2014\/01\/dark-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark days."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thing I am coming to accept, now in my mid-thirties, is that I will never be known. Not in the full way that I believed ten years ago was possible. That way where I can present my puss-ugly holes and necklace of dead babies and know that I am still wanted, loved more even. That way where the knower looks at me and sees the complexity, puzzle, \u00a0pessimism, and life &#8216;n shit and says, &#8220;Yes, I know you,&#8221; and I believe it. Someone hungry for me! \u00a0The one I imagine at the fire in the loneliest nights and riding thermals beside me on the brightest days. Please, please, PLEASE!!! Don&#8217;t fucking mention anything about a &#8220;God-shaped hole!&#8221; Or Jesus as my BFF that will never let me down. I haven&#8217;t given up on spirituality and all that, but I&#8217;ve outgrown imaginary friends.<\/p>\n<p>My ex-wife couldn&#8217;t handle my dark <strong><em>WAY<\/em><\/strong> before I fell in love with someone else. Then it was impossible. The closest thing I&#8217;ve had to a soul mate (whom I love in many ways, but never with eros) left my life <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.joshlewis.org\/eddie\/?p=488\">without a word of explanation<\/a>. However, the throbbing hurt it caused and thoughtlessness of it fucked the shit out of any comfort I had from believing at least one person knew me. This hope and the hope I had for Heather and I to someday get to a place of deep knowing? Fuck it. I often find a place of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santosha\">santosha<\/a>, but it is a dark existence and the light of recognition flits in and out like a shooting star fizzling into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>I am fucking getting tired of looking up. \u00a0And if and where I find the god that loves me like my heart needs he\/she\/they\/it will be living in the shit piles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fWK9UaiQSGo\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ps &#8211; Don&#8217;t worry about me. I&#8217;m fine and I don&#8217;t want to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing I am coming to accept, now in my mid-thirties, is that I will never be known. Not in the full way that I believed ten years ago was possible. 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