{"id":116396,"date":"2022-06-25T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=116396"},"modified":"2022-06-25T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T00:46:11","slug":"forgiveness-hour-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/forgiveness-hour-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgiveness &#8211; Hour Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The vibration in my ribcage is a swarm of bees,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stinging sorrow cleansing the shame to give me back the keys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To my own body, I am no longer a stranger.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This tattoo needle\u2019s ink giving me back my power,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You have no longer seen my body as it now looks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My body, always a topic of conversation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For everyone who thinks they know better than me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another comes along to try to knock me down,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Turn the dial on self esteem all the way left<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But to my own body, I am no longer a stranger.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The vibration in my ribcage is a swarm of bees,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My body, always a topic of conversation,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this time there is no stinging sorrow.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even with anger buzzing through me, I decide:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My kindness, my trust, is not a weakness.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I forgive those who so clearly need it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vibration in my ribcage is a swarm of bees, Stinging sorrow cleansing the shame to give me back the keys. To my own body, I am no longer a stranger. This tattoo needle\u2019s ink giving me back my power, You have no longer seen&#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-116396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116396","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=116396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116400,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116396\/revisions\/116400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}