{"id":138239,"date":"2023-09-02T22:36:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138239"},"modified":"2023-09-02T22:36:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T02:36:34","slug":"a-ballad-for-the-brokenhearted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/a-ballad-for-the-brokenhearted\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ballad for the Brokenhearted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s to the friends who&#8217;ve been lost along the way<\/p>\n<p>to silence, to fury, to sleep,<\/p>\n<p>and to the lessons we remember today<\/p>\n<p>some that we laugh at, some which make us weep<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For those who had held us in our times of need<\/p>\n<p>but vanished as soon morning landed,<\/p>\n<p>gone like a ghost who had died with the seed<\/p>\n<p>the distance between us expanded<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And to the bastards who drove us straight mad,<\/p>\n<p>can&#8217;t regret half the words that I&#8217;ve said<\/p>\n<p>at some point you mattered through happy and sad,<\/p>\n<p>but life&#8217;s better without you instead<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s for those who were forced to let go,<\/p>\n<p>through ending of cycles to peace<\/p>\n<p>If I could be sure you know how I still miss you so,<\/p>\n<p>I might feel something better, at least<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to the friends that we&#8217;ve lost along the way,<\/p>\n<p>who&#8217;ve helped, hurt, and loved without cost<\/p>\n<p>in spite of the frustrating ache of heartbreaking<\/p>\n<p>without you, I know I&#8217;d be lost<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999\"><em>(Hour 14)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s to the friends who&#8217;ve been lost along the way to silence, to fury, to sleep, and to the lessons we remember today some that we laugh at, some which make us weep &nbsp; For those who had held us in our times of need&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138239","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\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138247,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138239\/revisions\/138247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}