Hider of secrets
\nBetraying myself only
\nto those that know my heart
\nMy heart is the key to my face<\/p>\n
Yet to the eye of the
\nbeholder
\nMy face is the only
\nway\u00a0to see me
\nA mask
\nI wear one 95%
\nof my days
\nIt’s what they want
\nIt reflects what others
\nwant to see
\nHappiness, beauty<\/p>\n
My face, my\u00a0face<\/strong><\/em> My face is a gate Hider of secrets Betraying myself only to those that know my heart My heart is the key to my face Yet to the eye of the beholder My face is the only way\u00a0to see me A mask I wear one 95% of my days It’s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499","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\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10580,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10499\/revisions\/10580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTruly reflects
\nwhat’s within me:
\nStrength
\nPain
\nJoy
\nConflict
\nDetermination
\nAmbition
\nLove
\nPassion
\nBeauty<\/p>\n
\nFurtive
\nPlayful
\nIntelligent
\nOpen the gate
\nand you’ll win
\nBut until then
\nI’ll give them what
\nthey want
\nWhat they’re comfortable with
\nI’ll don a mask
\nonly taking it off
\nto let the most
\nExclusive in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"