{"id":103065,"date":"2021-06-27T08:42:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=103065"},"modified":"2021-06-27T08:42:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T12:42:13","slug":"hour-21-to-my-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-21-to-my-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 21 &#8211; To My Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I need the type of person who<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can understand me even when I\u2019m silent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maybe especially then. When my<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Voice has been arrested by<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seemingly endless despair,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I need you to remind me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That there is still something<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this life to look forward to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Something that gives me more<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comfort than ending this pain.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This life has beaten me down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kindness has hidden away from me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For years, and maybe that is why I<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cannot find it in myself to even<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Establish boundaries. Boundaries<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Are just lines on a map I do not possess<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because I am too busy justifying &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Too busy telling myself about the<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trauma of others to care about<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What I am putting myself through.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need the type of person who Can understand me even when I\u2019m silent.\u00a0 Maybe especially then. When my Voice has been arrested by Seemingly endless despair, I need you to remind me That there is still something In this life to look forward to&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103065","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\/3586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103071,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103065\/revisions\/103071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}