{"id":21527,"date":"2016-08-13T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21527"},"modified":"2016-08-13T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:48:16","slug":"elevated-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/elevated-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevated Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh, no! \"My<\/p>\n

Really?
\nIt’s on the 7th floor?
\nI AM going to have to
\nwalk through THAT door…<\/p>\n

And get into that box!
\nthat vertical trap
\nand hold my breath
\nwhen I hear that door snap<\/p>\n

One time I got stuck
\nright between floors
\nI never do trust
\nthose elevator doors<\/p>\n

It took far too long
\nfor rescue to come
\nI feared I would die
\nwhat a way to succumb<\/p>\n

I wasn’t alone
\nthank God for that
\nstill, I found little comfort
\nas I sat on the mat<\/p>\n

Is there enough oxygen
\nfor the two of us?
\n(but he was my boss
\nand I tried not to fuss)<\/p>\n

On another occasion
\nabout a dozen folks
\ncrowded together
\nwe tried to make jokes<\/p>\n

I cried out loud
\n“I cannot DO THIS!”
\nwhat choice did I have?
\nI heard “Calm down Miss!”<\/p>\n

My Elevator Anxiety
\nmay have another source
\nyes, Mom chose a closet
\nand showed no remorse<\/p>\n

because I’d been “bad”
\nshe locked me in
\n(the sentence I served
\nfor some “terrible sin”)<\/p>\n

It was dark inside there
\njust some light through a crack
\nthe hanging clothes
\npushed down on my back<\/p>\n

I stumbled on shoes
\nwhile I begged to come out
\nit would feel like hours
\nto a kid, no doubt<\/p>\n

It’s amazing to me
\nthat I’m able to fly
\nnot that I like it…
\nin that tube in the sky<\/p>\n

But it’s not the same
\nas an Elevator space
\nSome memories
\nare hard to erase<\/p>\n

OH, yes, I am grateful
\nto live on FIRST FLOOR
\nso that I can WALK
\nto my own front door!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh, no! Really? It’s on the 7th floor? I AM going to have to walk through THAT door… And get into that box! that vertical trap and hold my breath when I hear that door snap One time I got stuck right between floors I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21527","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\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21965,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21527\/revisions\/21965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}