{"id":110404,"date":"2022-06-25T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=110404"},"modified":"2022-07-22T17:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T21:41:01","slug":"under-the-surface-poem-4-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/under-the-surface-poem-4-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Under The Surface Poem 4\/Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under The Surface<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By: LuvMiFreely<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This growing pressure<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That choking feeling in my throat<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I feel it all building up in my chest<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My emotions at its breaking point<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My outer appearance shows no sign of damage<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Not one crack present<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Can\u2019t allow myself to shatter<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I&#8217;m the strong one<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ash, keep it together<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m ready to fold<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Expectations high and f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ailure isn\u2019t an option<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019m forced to carry this load<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I buckle and bend<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But somehow I don&#8217;t break<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I guess I was made to handle any burden<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take on any fate<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although I take what I\u2019m handed and never question it<br \/>\n<\/span>Doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not heavy<br \/>\nAnd that it isn&#8217;t weighing on my spirit<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve conditioned myself to smile<br \/>\nBut under the surface I&#8217;m drowning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under The Surface By: LuvMiFreely This growing pressure That choking feeling in my throat I feel it all building up in my chest My emotions at its breaking point My outer appearance shows no sign of damage Not one crack present Can\u2019t allow myself to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110404","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\/1307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125106,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110404\/revisions\/125106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}