{"id":43151,"date":"2017-08-06T08:42:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=43151"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:43:09","slug":"1224-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/1224-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"(#12\/24): \u201cMortality\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It begins with a nagging cough that comes to stay.<\/p>\n<p>A general malaise that never goes away.<\/p>\n<p>Then a conspicuous spot on the film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNearly missed it,\u201d he jokes.<\/p>\n<p>As if to comfort.<\/p>\n<p>But, I know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And even as I leave his office,<\/p>\n<p>Days before I return to confirm the inevitable,<\/p>\n<p>Instinctively, I begin to plan.<\/p>\n<p>Time to get my affairs in order.<\/p>\n<p>Time to set matters straight.<\/p>\n<p>Time to clear the air with you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A life lived without purpose,<\/p>\n<p>Is now centred around just one.<\/p>\n<p>A life lived without care,<\/p>\n<p>Now must have every moment count.<\/p>\n<p>A life lived without responsibility,<\/p>\n<p>Must now assess every next step.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our sun dies in five billion years,<\/p>\n<p>Our earth uninhabitable in just a billion.<\/p>\n<p>My time here concludes far sooner,<\/p>\n<p>Measured in mere months.<\/p>\n<p>Twilight\u2019s last gleaming beckons,<\/p>\n<p>As I stumble towards inevitability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2017 S Phua<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It begins with a nagging cough that comes to stay. A general malaise that never goes away. Then a conspicuous spot on the film. \u201cNearly missed it,\u201d he jokes. As if to comfort. But, I know. &nbsp; And even as I leave his office, Days&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43155,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151\/revisions\/43155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}