{"id":101361,"date":"2021-06-27T05:16:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101361"},"modified":"2021-06-27T05:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T09:16:35","slug":"prompt-21-ode-to-loves-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/prompt-21-ode-to-loves-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 21 Ode to loves lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You were never abandoned<br \/>\nI wanted you<br \/>\nto know<br \/>\nI planned to return<\/p>\n<p>There was broken<br \/>\noff shards of glass<br \/>\nleft in my heart<\/p>\n<p>burning lights<br \/>\nhead nods and kisses<\/p>\n<p>I longed for you<br \/>\nI squattered in vacant houses<br \/>\nwith you<\/p>\n<p>Willing to be<br \/>\nnowhere to be found<br \/>\nas long as it was with you<\/p>\n<p>You finished early<br \/>\nleaving me holding the books<br \/>\nby the class you never planned to attend<br \/>\nholding the keys to a house<br \/>\nyou never planned to return to<\/p>\n<p>It was you<br \/>\nwho abandoned me<br \/>\ntelling me to pick my head up<\/p>\n<p>as you mind fucked me<br \/>\nmasturbating my brain<br \/>\nwith ideas<br \/>\nyou had no intention<br \/>\nto perform<\/p>\n<p>It was I who couldn&#8217;t see<br \/>\nuntil<br \/>\nI could<br \/>\nYou were worse than where you started<br \/>\nand settled for tied sheets<br \/>\nbetween homes<br \/>\nwhen one was always enough<\/p>\n<p>squattering your own respect away<br \/>\nover a place to stay<br \/>\nsecured with false love<\/p>\n<p>then you look me up<br \/>\ntelling me its not what it was cracked up to be<br \/>\nwhen it was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You were never abandoned I wanted you to know I planned to return There was broken off shards of glass left in my heart burning lights head nods and kisses I longed for you I squattered in vacant houses with you Willing to be nowhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101361","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101438,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101361\/revisions\/101438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}