{"id":101655,"date":"2021-06-27T06:59:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=101655"},"modified":"2021-06-27T06:59:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T10:59:33","slug":"do-you-have-a-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/do-you-have-a-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Have a Refuge?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trials of life will come \u2013 no need to pray for that<\/p>\n<p>All you need is to be a human being<\/p>\n<p>Failures and disappointments will come \u2013 I do not pray it for any<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just what it is<\/p>\n<p>If you live long enough, you\u2019ll experience one or many<\/p>\n<p>If you live too short to experience one<\/p>\n<p>Then, one has come by you to your loved ones, and to your community<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The question is not, \u201cWill the storm come?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question is, \u201cWill I stand, and withstand the storm?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The questions is, \u201cWhat will I do when it comes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question is, \u201cIs there a refuge, a shelter in the time of storm?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Put no trust in man\u00a0 &#8211;man can be funny in an unfunny way<\/p>\n<p>Man and disappointment are bosom buddies<\/p>\n<p>Where you find man, you\u2019ll find disappointment \u2013it\u2019s only a matter of time<\/p>\n<p>So, what or whom do you trust in the time of storm?<\/p>\n<p>Will you have a refuge in the time of storm?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you have a refuge but don\u2019t know the refuge<\/p>\n<p>You might as well not have one \u2013a refuge<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a refuge in the time of storm?<\/p>\n<p>Do you know your refuge? It may be hard to search in the time of storm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A refuge we all need in the time of storm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do You Have a Refuge? &nbsp; Trials of life will come \u2013 no need to pray for that All you need is to be a human being Failures and disappointments will come \u2013 I do not pray it for any It\u2019s just what it is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101655","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\/101655","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\/3490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102167,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101655\/revisions\/102167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}