{"id":100295,"date":"2021-06-27T02:22:04","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=100295"},"modified":"2021-06-27T02:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T06:22:25","slug":"poem-vi-personifying-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/poem-vi-personifying-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem VI: Personifying Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been nights when the darkness was not dark enough to exhume my soul<br \/>\nbut I prayed it away<br \/>\nbecause life was too consuming.<br \/>\nWhen the fingers of Death<br \/>\npried me open to remove the oyster of my soul,<br \/>\nI did not feel the fear paralyze me<br \/>\nbecause I have been ready to go on<br \/>\nthe condition that I am granted the<br \/>\nhighest level of heaven.<br \/>\nDeath carries me in his limp arms,<br \/>\nprays over my fading scars.<br \/>\nHymns\u2014 that were supposed to put the dead to rest but have brought me back to life.<br \/>\nI suppose strife has a strange way of<br \/>\nwrapping itself within your genes<br \/>\nthat even the nimble fingers<br \/>\nand remorseful lips of Death cannot undo.<br \/>\nI feel Death&#8217;s gaze peruse my skin;<br \/>\ntrying to find the eye of the needle to<br \/>\nremove the thread of grief<br \/>\nbut I will be buried with grief<br \/>\nas my only heirloom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>More poetry via instagram <span class=\"atwho-query\">@a<\/span>njaanography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been nights when the darkness was not dark enough to exhume my soul but I prayed it away because life was too consuming. When the fingers of Death pried me open to remove the oyster of my soul, I did not feel the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100308,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100295\/revisions\/100308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}