{"id":19434,"date":"2016-08-13T16:36:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=19434"},"modified":"2016-08-13T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T20:36:14","slug":"before-darkness-prompt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/before-darkness-prompt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Darkness (Prompt 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Before Darkness<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember bottles, or rattles.<\/p>\n<p>I remember\u00a0crying,<\/p>\n<p>the only words screaming.<\/p>\n<p>Then suddenly it stops.<\/p>\n<p>Warmth. Comfort.\u00a0It&#8217;ll be alright.<\/p>\n<p>I remember fireworks,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mama, look at the pretty lights!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scared of the thunder.<\/p>\n<p>Hold me tighter,<\/p>\n<p>closer to your heart.<\/p>\n<p>Skinned\u00a0elbows<\/p>\n<p>and bruised knees,<\/p>\n<p>but I don&#8217;t remember<\/p>\n<p>how the ground felt.<\/p>\n<p>Pick me up.<\/p>\n<p>Hold me tighter,<\/p>\n<p>closer to your heart.<\/p>\n<p>My heart,<\/p>\n<p>torn and mended<\/p>\n<p>in a cycle that seemed endless,<\/p>\n<p>until you.<\/p>\n<p>Hold me tighter,<\/p>\n<p>closer to your heart.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember bottles.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember rattles.<\/p>\n<p>I remember thunder and fire works,<\/p>\n<p>comfort miles away,<\/p>\n<p>skinned knuckles and battles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>falling.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember how the ground felt.<\/p>\n<p>Pick me up.<\/p>\n<p>Hold me tighter,<\/p>\n<p>closer to your heart.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22353\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldier-and-dying-child-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"Soldier and dying child\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldier-and-dying-child-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldier-and-dying-child.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Darkness I don&#8217;t remember bottles, or rattles. I remember\u00a0crying, the only words screaming. Then suddenly it stops. Warmth. Comfort.\u00a0It&#8217;ll be alright. I remember fireworks, &#8220;Mama, look at the pretty lights!&#8221; Scared of the thunder. Hold me tighter, closer to your heart. Skinned\u00a0elbows and bruised&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,13,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-poetry-prompt-responses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434","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\/902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22447,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19434\/revisions\/22447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}