{"id":129926,"date":"2023-09-02T12:28:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=129926"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:28:51","slug":"the-end-hour-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/the-end-hour-four\/","title":{"rendered":"The End &#8211; Hour Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The End<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How will you see my life at the end<br \/>\nWill you see me as helpful and kind<br \/>\nAs one on whom you knew you&#8217;d depend<br \/>\nOr someone erased from your mind<br \/>\nWill you think of me and remember some purpose<br \/>\nSome time that I helped you through Hell<br \/>\nOr will you recall some moment of weakness<br \/>\nI may not have handled that well<\/p>\n<p>Will you stop to think of moments in sunshine<br \/>\nOr times when the storm clouds appeared<br \/>\nWill laughter and joy be a resounding headline<br \/>\nOr the thought of me bring you a tear<br \/>\nI know that I&#8217;ve tried to conquer each challenge<br \/>\nAnd bring my world closer to light<br \/>\nBut I am a realist and know that great damage<br \/>\nCan breed if I wasn&#8217;t quite right<\/p>\n<p>When you think of me, I hope it is fondly<br \/>\nBut if not, I am sorry and sigh<br \/>\nFor if there&#8217;s one thing I know that is certain<br \/>\nIt is far too late at goodbye<br \/>\nFor once at the end, there is no going backwards<br \/>\nNo do-overs, fixes or mends<br \/>\nYet, I remain hopeful my final day beckons<br \/>\nRemembered by all of my friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The End &nbsp; How will you see my life at the end Will you see me as helpful and kind As one on whom you knew you&#8217;d depend Or someone erased from your mind Will you think of me and remember some purpose Some time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,441],"tags":[3019,5909,1806,3456,355,1547,392],"class_list":["post-129926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-24-hour-poetry-marathon","tag-final-day-poems","tag-jill-eisnaugle","tag-jill-halasz","tag-poetry-marathon","tag-rhyming-poems","tag-writing-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129926","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130036,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129926\/revisions\/130036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}