{"id":120899,"date":"2022-06-26T05:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=120899"},"modified":"2022-06-26T05:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T09:31:35","slug":"hermit-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hermit-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermit Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep to myself<br \/>\nNo bother to any<br \/>\nOffering what I can<br \/>\nLending an ear<br \/>\nI give<br \/>\nAnd I gave<br \/>\nFar too much of myself<br \/>\nLifted those<br \/>\nWho oppressed me<br \/>\nLoved those<br \/>\nWho hated me<br \/>\nPrayed for those<br \/>\nWho betrayed me<br \/>\nI keep to myself<br \/>\nBite my tongue to the masses<br \/>\nAnd confess my feelings to God<br \/>\nI raise my son<br \/>\nNot my voice<br \/>\nI raise myself<br \/>\nAnd use my voice<br \/>\nProfess my truth<br \/>\nI&#8217;m no better<br \/>\nNor worse<br \/>\nThan my peers<br \/>\nI work on myself<br \/>\nChanged my ways<br \/>\nHealed my toxic traits<br \/>\nAnd aim toward goals<br \/>\nI study<br \/>\nI educate<br \/>\nI meditate<br \/>\nPurge what no longer serves<br \/>\nI sing loudly<br \/>\nNevermind my volume<br \/>\nI suffer in silence<br \/>\nFrom chronic pain<br \/>\nNot so much emotional anguish<br \/>\nDetached from toxicity<br \/>\nRemoved myself<br \/>\nFrom abusive narcissists<br \/>\nI keep to myself<br \/>\nIsolated in solitude<br \/>\nBy my own choice<br \/>\nAnd by God&#8217;s decree<br \/>\nI keep to myself<br \/>\nIn Hermit mode<br \/>\nTo gain truth and clarity<br \/>\nFor my growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep to myself No bother to any Offering what I can Lending an ear I give And I gave Far too much of myself Lifted those Who oppressed me Loved those Who hated me Prayed for those Who betrayed me I keep to myself&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1485,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120899","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\/1485"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120951,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120899\/revisions\/120951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}