{"id":19425,"date":"2016-08-13T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19425"},"modified":"2016-08-13T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:50:08","slug":"before-darkness-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Darkness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Not wanting to stab anyone in the neck, I dropped the knife.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

You plotted<\/p>\n

You schemed<\/p>\n

You laughed thinking of me<\/p>\n

How I\u2019d be all alone<\/p>\n

Later that night<\/p>\n

How you would<\/p>\n

Knock and bang<\/p>\n

And give me a<\/p>\n

Fright.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

What you did not know<\/p>\n

Is that I am strong<\/p>\n

And not afraid;<\/p>\n

My go-to weapon is a<\/p>\n

sharpened<\/p>\n

Blade.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

After Dark<\/p>\n

You three<\/p>\n

Wanted to scare me<\/p>\n

Thinking it would be fun<\/p>\n

All laughs for everyone<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the stillness, in the dark<\/p>\n

As you snuck through my yard,<\/p>\n

Like thieves in the night<\/p>\n

Thinking I wouldn\u2019t put up a fight.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I was scared<\/p>\n

As you knocked<\/p>\n

As you banged<\/p>\n

As you demanded,<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me in!\u201d<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

With your flashlight beaming in my eyes<\/p>\n

I was the one to give you a surprise<\/p>\n

With one hand, I flung open the door<\/p>\n

In the other, I gripped the knife.<\/p>\n

Who then was scared for their life?<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Not me.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Your snorts of laughter<\/p>\n

Turned to gasps of fear,<\/p>\n

Tasting your own disaster.<\/p>\n

Feeling your end was near.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Not wanting to stab anyone in the neck,<\/p>\n

I dropped the knife.<\/p>\n

You learned a lesson that night:<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be messin\u2019<\/p>\n

With a blond<\/p>\n

And a butcher knife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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