{"id":12163,"date":"2015-06-13T23:54:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=12163"},"modified":"2015-06-13T23:54:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T03:54:53","slug":"her-moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/her-moving-on\/","title":{"rendered":"“Her Moving On”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sit listlessly by.<\/p>\n

I listen closely for a sign of life.<\/p>\n

Cancer has locked its deadly talons in you.<\/p>\n

Swaddled in death’s grip.<\/p>\n

It seeps through your pores.<\/p>\n

I feel its weight crushing you.<\/p>\n

All of the pain with nothing but a hefty morphine dose to gain.<\/p>\n

I squeeze your hand and plead with you to kick death in its teeth and wake up.<\/p>\n

My pleas and prayers are to avail.<\/p>\n

The tears won’t cease.<\/p>\n

I have betrayed my emotions all day.<\/p>\n

Now a river runs through me, astray.<\/p>\n

I cannot bear the thought of her moving unto another plane.<\/p>\n

I cannot bear to lose her.<\/p>\n

My baby sister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sit listlessly by. I listen closely for a sign of life. Cancer has locked its deadly talons in you. Swaddled in death’s grip. It seeps through your pores. I feel its weight crushing you. All of the pain with nothing but a hefty morphine…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12220,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12163\/revisions\/12220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}