{"id":118285,"date":"2022-06-26T00:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T04:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=118285"},"modified":"2022-07-21T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T21:18:56","slug":"prompt-13-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/prompt-13-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been told you can grow from love<\/p>\n<p>no matter<\/p>\n<p>which part of it you are holding<\/p>\n<p>I was on the giving end<\/p>\n<p>rocking through manipulation<\/p>\n<p>relationships so pale they glowed<\/p>\n<p>a half vanishing dilemma<\/p>\n<p>teaching me that one can also grow from pain<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Packing lighter<\/p>\n<p>harder to unravel<\/p>\n<p>no longer fearful of missing out<\/p>\n<p>I long to give up everything<\/p>\n<p>there are no comforting excuses for anyone&#8217;s behavior<\/p>\n<p>that makes me tear out a page<\/p>\n<p>of myself<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I knew I had to eliminate something<\/p>\n<p>so I told my children stories<\/p>\n<p>so they could see my human<\/p>\n<p>and not hold me to the sky<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I tell them to place my feet on the dirt road next to yours<\/p>\n<p>allow me to stand in the shade with you<\/p>\n<p>let the air wrap around us four<\/p>\n<p>like a hug<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am just like you<\/p>\n<p>We are in a moment<\/p>\n<p>that will pass soon enough<\/p>\n<p>see me as someone<\/p>\n<p>you can hold understanding for<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been told you can grow from love no matter which part of it you are holding I was on the giving end rocking through manipulation relationships so pale they glowed a half vanishing dilemma teaching me that one can also grow from pain &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118285","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125074,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118285\/revisions\/125074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}