{"id":127711,"date":"2023-09-02T10:14:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127711"},"modified":"2023-09-03T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T02:22:58","slug":"hour-2-prompt-hour-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-2-prompt-hour-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 2 &#8211; prompt hour 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-127737\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-768x1152-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-768x1152-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-768x1152-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/maria-teneva-bJ-TxX30_98-unsplash-768x1152-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trapped in a looking glass<br \/>\nwhiling my time away as well as my youth.<br \/>\nWasting body, insanity is driving me to mindlessness.<br \/>\nMy struggle feels too heavy and too enourmous for my shoulders<br \/>\nfeels like I am carrying around this huge backpack full of rocks<br \/>\nwhile struggling to stay afload almost sinking to the bottom<br \/>\nwater fills my lungs. air is escaping, I am helpless and without hope.<br \/>\nI scream for help but the voice doesn&#8217;t come out.<br \/>\nAny glimmer of success is robbed by bad timing.<\/p>\n<p>It feels like I am stuck, I want to give up, I want to let go I want to stop fighting and trying.<\/p>\n<p>Things will get better they say&#8230; have faith.<\/p>\n<p>Trying at a losing battle sealing my own fate.<br \/>\nSecond guessing myself my doubts are here to stay.<br \/>\nGlimpse in the mirror &#8211; I am afraid of my own reflection<br \/>\nIt screams my truth &#8211; the one I have been snuffling like as if I am ashamed to admit.<\/p>\n<p>How much further must I go?<br \/>\nHow much more of my mental peace must I sacrifice<\/p>\n<p>When will it ever be enough?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trapped in a looking glass whiling my time away as well as my youth. Wasting body, insanity is driving me to mindlessness. My struggle feels too heavy and too enourmous for my shoulders feels like I am carrying around this huge backpack full of rocks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127711","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144508,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127711\/revisions\/144508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}