{"id":26352,"date":"2016-08-14T02:05:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=26352"},"modified":"2016-08-14T02:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T06:05:28","slug":"poemno17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poemno17\/","title":{"rendered":"#PoemNo17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>#PoemNo17<\/p>\n<p>My heart is<br \/>\nno stranger<br \/>\nto the different kinds<br \/>\nof heartbreaks<br \/>\npeople have<br \/>\nto offer.<\/p>\n<p>Smile to<br \/>\nmy face<br \/>\nand stab<br \/>\nme right<br \/>\nin the back.<br \/>\nThe kind<br \/>\nof heartbreak<br \/>\nbetrayal has<br \/>\nto offer<br \/>\nis painful<br \/>\nand hurtful.<br \/>\nI begin<br \/>\nlosing trust<br \/>\nin everyone.<br \/>\nBut with<br \/>\ntime I<br \/>\nheal, and<br \/>\neventually overcome<br \/>\nthis heartbreak.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">The second<br \/>\nkind of<br \/>\nheartbreak is<br \/>\nthe one<br \/>\nyou get<br \/>\nfrom someone<br \/>\nwhom you\u2019re<br \/>\nromantically invested<br \/>\nin, dreaming<br \/>\ntogether, planning<br \/>\na future with.<br \/>\nAfter all<br \/>\nthe time<br \/>\nand effort<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve invested<br \/>\ninto the<br \/>\nrelationship, it<br \/>\ngoes south,<br \/>\nwashed in<br \/>\nthe drain.<br \/>\nRegrets collect<br \/>\nlike dust<br \/>\non the furniture<br \/>\n-Memories WE<br \/>\nboth share.<br \/>\nBut, eventually<br \/>\ni move on,<br \/>\nand learn to<br \/>\nlove again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">But this<br \/>\none stings\u2026<br \/>\nlike a moherfucker.<br \/>\nRefuses to<br \/>\nfade\u2026only<br \/>\ngets stronger<br \/>\nwith time.<br \/>\nNo matter<br \/>\nhow much<br \/>\nI try to<br \/>\nignore it\u2026<br \/>\nit returns<br \/>\nback with<br \/>\na harder<br \/>\npunch.<br \/>\n\u2018\u2019You\u2019re nothing but a bag of shit!\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nroared my dad<br \/>\nwith temper fuming<br \/>\nwhen I was 13 years old\u2026<br \/>\nI\u2019m now 27 years older<br \/>\nand this one insult<br \/>\nstill paralyzes me right<br \/>\ndown to the bone,<br \/>\nI crumble,<br \/>\ndrenched in a pool of my own tears.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t remember why he said that<br \/>\nall I remember are those 7 words<br \/>\nringing loudly like the temple bells<br \/>\nin the deep recesses of my soul.<br \/>\nLike a stain that refuses to leave<br \/>\nthe words are etched in my memory,<br \/>\nso strongly with the expression of disgust speaking volumes..,<br \/>\nthe sad thing is\u2026 that even after all this time\u2026<br \/>\nthose 7 fucking words can still reduce me to a puddle of dirt.<br \/>\nThe heartbreak that I never got over,<br \/>\nis the worst one of all..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">j.r.m<em>\u00a9<\/em>\u00a02016<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26760 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery-1467840689-hsinwang-de-selfing-no-26-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"gallery-1467840689-hsinwang-de-selfing-no-26\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery-1467840689-hsinwang-de-selfing-no-26-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery-1467840689-hsinwang-de-selfing-no-26-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery-1467840689-hsinwang-de-selfing-no-26.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gallery-1467840689-hsinwang-de-selfing-no-26-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#PoemNo17 My heart is no stranger to the different kinds of heartbreaks people have to offer. Smile to my face and stab me right in the back. The kind of heartbreak betrayal has to offer is painful and hurtful. I begin losing trust in everyone&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352","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\/897"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26774,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26352\/revisions\/26774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}