{"id":136951,"date":"2023-09-02T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=136951"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:40:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:40:21","slug":"closeted-threats-tw-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/closeted-threats-tw-sexual-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Closeted Threats ~ TW : sexual abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCloseted Threats\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trigger Warning ~ sexual abuse<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

at the tender age of five<\/span><\/p>\n

unknowing, in the ways of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

the sexual needs of men<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the attention, was different<\/span><\/p>\n

my own mother, absent<\/span><\/p>\n

in her own hell<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the light burned high above<\/span><\/p>\n

his head, as he towered over me<\/span><\/p>\n

blinding me ~<\/span><\/p>\n

squinting my eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I heard ~<\/span><\/p>\n

you can\u2019t tell them<\/span><\/p>\n

or else<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

the words fell<\/p>\n

to the closet floor<\/p>\n

where I sat<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

later,\u00a0 a mindful adult<\/span><\/p>\n

asked, the secret spilled<\/span><\/p>\n

in the parking lot of the local bar<\/span><\/p>\n

where my mother tended<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

my mother devastated<\/span><\/p>\n

her patrons gathered round<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

his car, left by the side of the road<\/span><\/p>\n

he was never found<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

that\u2019s how it ends for those<\/span><\/p>\n

in a small Texas town<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cCloseted Threats\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Trigger Warning ~ sexual abuse   at the tender age of five unknowing, in the ways of\u00a0 the sexual needs of men   the attention, was different my own mother, absent in her own hell I\u2019m sure   the light burned high above…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5772,1620,4556,6148],"class_list":["post-136951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-2023fullmarathon","tag-77poetess","tag-hr12","tag-sexualabusesurvior"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136951","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\/730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137011,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136951\/revisions\/137011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}