{"id":127766,"date":"2023-09-02T10:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T14:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=127766"},"modified":"2023-09-24T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T21:25:11","slug":"lacuna-a-story-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/lacuna-a-story-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLacuna : A Story From The Past&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a missing part of something that\u2019s already lost.<\/p>\n<p>I missed myself the most.<\/p>\n<p>As young as twenty but felt like thirty.<\/p>\n<p>I hope, I am happy at thirty \u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I lost father a few weeks back,<\/p>\n<p>My voice still cracks.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m back in Manila, the city that I just met.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hoping to meet my old version there yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I thought twenty are freedom, fun and adventure,<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m lost like a twelve-year-old child,<\/p>\n<p>Who just found out that she\u2019s broken,<\/p>\n<p>Lost and forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a raccoon on a scavenger hunt,<\/p>\n<p>A societal pest, a human mess.<\/p>\n<p>This must be God\u2019s test,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m just hoping for this misery be put to rest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Lacuna : an unfilled space; a gap, a blank space, a missing part.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Text Prompt : &#8220;Write a poem from the point of view of yourself, ten years ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>#POETRYMARATHON2023 #HOUR02\u00a0 #24HRSCATEGORY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I am a missing part of something that\u2019s already lost. I missed myself the most. As young as twenty but felt like thirty. I hope, I am happy at thirty \u2026 &nbsp; I lost father a few weeks back, My voice still cracks&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127766","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\/1370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128329,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127766\/revisions\/128329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}