{"id":114921,"date":"2022-06-25T18:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T22:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114921"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:27:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:27:40","slug":"forgiveness-hour-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/forgiveness-hour-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness (Hour #10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sky darkens, thunder claps,<\/p>\n<p>Eyes glares, words are sharp;<\/p>\n<p>There is tension in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gasping for breath in the ocean seems comfortable,<\/p>\n<p>Lying in a pool of blood in the highway seems secure,<\/p>\n<p>Struggling dangling from the ceiling seems enjoyable,<\/p>\n<p>Choking with pills on the bedroom floor seems good enough,<\/p>\n<p>Foaming from a syringe in the bathtub seems likeable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hate decends and makes its way;<\/p>\n<p>Splitting siblings,<\/p>\n<p>Splitting friends,<\/p>\n<p>Splitting couples,<\/p>\n<p>Splitting families,<\/p>\n<p>Splitting people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sky is gloomy while danger looms,<\/p>\n<p>Triggers go off and fingers keep pointing;<\/p>\n<p>There is tension in the air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dissapearing off the face of the earth seems advisable,<\/p>\n<p>Running away from home seems approachable,<\/p>\n<p>Revolting and striking back seems agreeable,<\/p>\n<p>Poisoning them all seems good enough,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Talking things through seems hard; forgiving even harder,<\/p>\n<p>But it is what is best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sky darkens, thunder claps, Eyes glares, words are sharp; There is tension in the air. &nbsp; Gasping for breath in the ocean seems comfortable, Lying in a pool of blood in the highway seems secure, Struggling dangling from the ceiling seems enjoyable, Choking with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4008,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[4909],"class_list":["post-114921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114921","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\/4008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116129,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114921\/revisions\/116129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}