{"id":115008,"date":"2022-06-25T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=115008"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:29:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:29:06","slug":"turning-hour-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/turning-hour-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning (Hour #11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I was a god, you&#8217;d be an atheist,<\/p>\n<p>Because to you I never did exist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I was the sun, you&#8217;d be the moon,<\/p>\n<p>Only coming out when I&#8217;ve gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I was a rainbow, you&#8217;d be colorblind,<\/p>\n<p>Unable to see my true mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not opposites as opposites tend to attract; instead I&#8217;m like a ghost, you&#8217;re unaware of my presence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a one-sided mirror&#8230;.instead of my reflection I can see you clearly, but you can&#8217;t see me from where you&#8217;re standing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever I do just can&#8217;t seem to catch your attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re just like a wishing star that comes once.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One can only wonder the crossing star&#8217;s destination as they make a wish-<\/p>\n<p>an irrelevant wish the star can&#8217;t even hear.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can liken you to the moon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Distant and cold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So far from earth but seems near. It&#8217;s not close at all&#8230;just an illusion.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re the dream I had but forgot about. You&#8217;re the dream I had no recollection of. Or perhaps you&#8217;re the dream I couldn&#8217;t wake up from, the dream I long for\u30fcthe dream I couldn&#8217;t call my own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Would it be better never to recall the blurry memories or would it serve as a solace by remembering every small detail of the time spent together?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the case is, the sun kisses the moon goodbye at dawn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who knows? Perhaps some raindroplet might reflect the rainbow you seem blind to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you just might turn into a believer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I was a god, you&#8217;d be an atheist, Because to you I never did exist. &nbsp; If I was the sun, you&#8217;d be the moon, Only coming out when I&#8217;ve gone. &nbsp; If I was a rainbow, you&#8217;d be colorblind, Unable to see my&#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":[4909,680,630],"class_list":["post-115008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","tag-2022halfmarathon","tag-poetrymarathon","tag-the-poetry-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115008","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=115008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116141,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115008\/revisions\/116141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}