{"id":134780,"date":"2023-09-02T17:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=134780"},"modified":"2023-09-02T17:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T21:59:29","slug":"wrap-me-around-my-nostalgia-and-call-me-gifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/wrap-me-around-my-nostalgia-and-call-me-gifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrap me around my nostalgia and call me gifted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Wrap me around my nostalgia and call me gifted.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes the night would refuse to unfurl,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Might look like it\u2019s the \u201cpause\u201d phase of time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would throw my arms into the wind\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Like a prayer, searching for god\u2019s embrace\/<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would refuse to get caught<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because Isn\u2019t this what\u00a0 fallen angels do?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bring light to ground zero and lose warmth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Who would bury the remains of our loss if we\u2019re<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">All lost in this strange planet:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">If we\u2019re\u00a0 all men, chained to a long<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Necklace of beasts who have held loss<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0The same way elites hold morsel of prayers<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between their two front teeth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s something about the night that<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Refuses our wounds to cover,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Something opening our bodies to the absence of light.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Something that would open them angles up;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">open their bodies to the bare<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of loneliness; make them the bare of loneliness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">I clasp a firefly between my teeth and charge<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Towards the darkness,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sometimes we\u2019re not always present,<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because nobody wraps their arms around<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Us to make us gifted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrap me around my nostalgia and call me gifted. Sometimes the night would refuse to unfurl, Might look like it\u2019s the \u201cpause\u201d phase of time. I would throw my arms into the wind\/ Like a prayer, searching for god\u2019s embrace\/ I would refuse to get&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134780","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\/5283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134785,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134780\/revisions\/134785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}