{"id":3801,"date":"2016-03-02T00:10:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T05:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2025-03-02T00:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T05:14:29","slug":"aching-dreamers-like-you-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/aching-dreamers-like-you-and-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Inspiration: there are others like us out there\u2026 aching dreamers like you and me\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/free-under-starlight-POEM-2-FEB-MED.jpg\" alt=\"there are others like us out there\u2026 aching dreamers like you and me who&#039;ve been told it&#039;s too much\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1747\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/free-under-starlight-POEM-2-FEB-MED.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/free-under-starlight-POEM-2-FEB-MED-258x300.jpg 258w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/free-under-starlight-POEM-2-FEB-MED-879x1024.jpg 879w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/free-under-starlight-POEM-2-FEB-MED-768x894.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/free-under-starlight-POEM-2-FEB-MED-1319x1536.jpg 1319w, https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/free-under-starlight-POEM-2-FEB-MED-570x664.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>there are others like us<br \/>\nout there\u2026 aching dreamers<br \/>\nlike you and me, who've been<br \/>\ntold it's too much\u2026<br \/>\nwe've been wrecked in our spirit.<br \/>\nbut what if we could still believe in things.<br \/>\nbeautiful things, untouchable things;<br \/>\neven the ones they told us not to.<br \/>\nwhat if we just chase them anyways.<br \/>\ni think we could touch them\u2026<br \/>\nbecause i've got all this wildflower energy,<br \/>\nand i see your wildfires when you look at me,<br \/>\nand i love that way you smile like<br \/>\nwild defiance\u2026 i wanna bottle it up and<br \/>\nuse it to fight off all my fears.<br \/>\nso let's leave doubt where it came from,<br \/>\nand let's run free under starlight,<br \/>\nand let's believe. so. much. that we<br \/>\njust can't be told different.<br \/>\nand then maybe\u2026 we could show the<br \/>\nothers that there is still so much for<br \/>\nthem to believe in too.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; butterflies rising<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&raquo; the butterflies rising quote <a href=\"https:\/\/butterfliesrising.com\/wild-defiance\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"there are others like us out there\u2026 aching dreamers like you and me\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8216;there are others like us out there\u2026 aching dreamers like you and me'<\/a> was originally published on the butterflies rising poetry blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>there are others like us<br \/>\nout there\u2026 aching dreamers<br \/>\nlike you and me<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; butterflies rising<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[216,132,125,193,98,60],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration-spirit","tag-butterflies-rising","tag-inspiration","tag-poem","tag-poet","tag-poetry","tag-quote"],"psp_head":"<title>there are others like us out there\u2026 aching dreamers - butterflies rising<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"there are others like us out there\u2026 aching dreamers like you and me who&#039;ve been told it&#039;s too much\u2026 we&#039;ve been wrecked in our spirit - butterflies rising\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index,follow\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/aching-dreamers-like-you-and-me\/\" \/>\r\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3804,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prettyprincess.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}