Who cares<\/p>\n
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She told me no one cared about the two of us<\/p>\n
Boring, she said. The struggles, the compromises.<\/p>\n
how we learned so very painfully<\/em> to listen<\/p>\n The way laughter slowly replaced anger<\/p>\n and the present outlived our pasts<\/p>\n \n No, she told me. No one wants to hear it.<\/p>\n I pointed to the words of another traveller<\/p>\n a woman whose name still rings silver<\/p>\n through halls so sacred. at least to someone<\/em><\/p>\n She gets it<\/em>, I countered. A shrug. Dismissed.<\/p>\n \n But I insist: I will record how you lay in the floor<\/p>\n to charm me out of bitterness, my curses melting<\/p>\n into fragile hope. How you gave me a year<\/p>\n and how it grew like a many-trunked banyan tree<\/p>\n each trunk another year, another life explored.<\/p>\n \n Now, you are ash and memory. Like the earth<\/p>\n beneath that banyan tree. So I send these<\/p>\n words into the void, where hope still wars<\/p>\n with anger and despair, and I do not care<\/p>\n about those others, those she said will not care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Who cares She told me no one cared about the two of us Boring, she said. The struggles, the compromises. how we learned so very painfully to listen The way laughter slowly replaced anger and the present outlived our pasts No, she told me. No…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129788","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\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145767,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129788\/revisions\/145767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}