{"id":126993,"date":"2023-09-02T09:19:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=126993"},"modified":"2023-09-02T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T13:19:31","slug":"the-middle-of-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-middle-of-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Middle of Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuck in the middle of forever<br \/>\nBetween what was and what will be<br \/>\nLost between the yellow lines<br \/>\nOf the past and the yet to be<br \/>\nI can hear the memories calling<br \/>\nI can see the future die<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t know which way to go<br \/>\nIf I want to survive<br \/>\nI can see an owl watching<br \/>\nIn that tree there, in the dark<br \/>\nHer eyes are glowing through the night<br \/>\nWhile her question sears my heart<br \/>\n&#8220;Whooo? Whooo? Whooo?&#8221; she asks<br \/>\nAs though I might reply<br \/>\nKnowing it might end us both<br \/>\nThat truth I hold inside<br \/>\nI ponder for a minute<br \/>\nWhat will happen if I stay<br \/>\nRight where my feet are planted<br \/>\nIn the middle of the way<br \/>\nBetween the nows and nevers<br \/>\nBetween the future and the past<br \/>\nWhat would happen if I just say<br \/>\n&#8220;I&#8217;ll stay here till the last&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nTill the hourglass is broken<br \/>\nTill the final day is done<br \/>\nIn the middle of forever<br \/>\nIf I stay, will I have won?<br \/>\nThis twisted joke played by the Fates<br \/>\nThis riddle without rhyme<br \/>\nMaybe the middle of forever<br \/>\nIs where we&#8217;re meant to draw the line<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s no way to know the answer<br \/>\nSo I&#8217;ll hunker down and wait<br \/>\nHere, between the yellow lines<br \/>\nIs where I&#8217;ll meet my fate<br \/>\nAnd no matter what comes next, I know<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll find peace either way<br \/>\nIn the middle of forever<br \/>\nAt the end of all my days.<br \/>\n~Mandy Kocsis\u00a92023~<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126944\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439-240x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439-819x1024.jpeg 819w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6439.jpeg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuck in the middle of forever Between what was and what will be Lost between the yellow lines Of the past and the yet to be I can hear the memories calling I can see the future die And I don&#8217;t know which way to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126993","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\/1516"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127024,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126993\/revisions\/127024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}