{"id":143249,"date":"2023-09-03T08:17:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T12:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=143249"},"modified":"2023-09-03T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T20:59:13","slug":"hour-twenty-four-wish-against-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-twenty-four-wish-against-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Twenty-Four: Wish Against Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vacant eyes, hollowed out,<\/p>\n<p>beneath the pupils, nothing,<\/p>\n<p>living in a war-torn city,<\/p>\n<p>rebuilding too far-off-future,<\/p>\n<p>then you see she&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I had a friend named Desiree,<\/p>\n<p>desired, desirer, desire,<\/p>\n<p>Sister to longing, daydreaming<\/p>\n<p>the night-long of fame and song,<\/p>\n<p>and wind-blown hair silhouettes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A wish he once had, only to<\/p>\n<p>love who he touched, touching<\/p>\n<p>how he loved humanity, he loved<\/p>\n<p>me, and hoped only for the best,<\/p>\n<p>a pipe dream&#8217;s tuneful beckoning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Without expectation, aspiration,<\/p>\n<p>goals, and dreams, we trudge<\/p>\n<p>the drudgery, life&#8217;s dull trails,<\/p>\n<p>without hope beyond mere living;<\/p>\n<p>Salvation&#8217;s well overflows with hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vacant eyes, hollowed out, beneath the pupils, nothing, living in a war-torn city, rebuilding too far-off-future, then you see she&#8217;s gone. &nbsp; I had a friend named Desiree, desired, desirer, desire, Sister to longing, daydreaming the night-long of fame and song, and wind-blown hair silhouettes&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143249","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144376,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143249\/revisions\/144376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}