Before Darkness<\/p>\n
… I once panicked<\/p>\n
I hesitate.<\/p>\n
No Stop! It’s time to regulate.<\/p>\n
The darkness, the dusk unveils a scared time, a time to be ushered in with an open mind.<\/p>\n
Darkness signals rest, a slowing down of sorts. Not just a time to be put to the test.<\/p>\n
In my younger years, not too long ago yes,I know, it was a time of unrest.<\/p>\n
The call of night loomed like a graying storm cloud that I could not see through.<\/p>\n
“So much to do,<\/p>\n
So little time,” was my favorite quote.<\/p>\n
It was not an option to float,<\/p>\n
Away. Instead I had to handle my dealings.<\/p>\n
Darkness at its core, before I worked the usual 10 hour shift with commute as I still do,it was instead a time in which I had mixed feelings.<\/p>\n
Long ago, or so it seems.<\/p>\n
Before darkness was a time that I relished. I savored. I looked for; I enjoyed being out to witness the most sacred part of the day. An ombre sky, a treat for all to see.<\/p>\n
This was where I wanted to be.<\/p>\n
…The last drop of color spooned from the sky and distilled in\u00a0waves\u00a0of sweet potato pie, candy cotton pink, and shades of lavender hue<\/p>\n
That faded gently into pools of blue.<\/p>\n
Steely grey clouds became more of a gateway to peace imbued with flecks of silver shard, remnants of stars, peeking through, hanging proudly beside a mysterious moon.<\/p>\n
The milky clouds some pink and gauzy,<\/p>\n
Some hazy,<\/p>\n
Dairy white curtains emerge from the heavens\u00a0ever growing darker by and by.<\/p>\n
Yes, this was my sky.<\/p>\n
Alas,I hearken back<\/p>\n
To a time that has long past when I drove underneath the “Phoenix Center” underpass, in the heart of Pontiac.<\/p>\n
With this, my favorite quote I fondly missed and the truth is,<\/p>\n
I can no longer resist,<\/p>\n
It has resurfaced clearer that before, and it is here to stay, ” I like the Nightlife.” This phrase still lingers in my mind from years long ago. I remember the thirty seconds or less as my family and I were\u00a0quickly whisked underneath the structure. I remember beaming from ear to ear with pride at my revelation…<\/span><\/p>\n Once again I can relate,<\/span><\/p>\n Before darkness and I can now officially date.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before Darkness … I once panicked I hesitate. No Stop! It’s time to regulate. The darkness, the dusk unveils a scared time, a time to be ushered in with an open mind. Darkness signals rest, a slowing down of sorts. Not just a time to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,12,1136,441,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompt-responses","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20066","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\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20066"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30096,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20066\/revisions\/30096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}