{"id":4562,"date":"2014-08-24T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=4562"},"modified":"2014-08-24T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T12:56:16","slug":"poetry-marathon-poem-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/poetry-marathon-poem-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Marathon poem #23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t save, only harm.<br \/>\nI am Destruction.<br \/>\nI have two paths,<br \/>\ninward or out.<br \/>\nI cannot control the Chaos.<br \/>\nThere is no right.<br \/>\nNo wrong.<br \/>\nOnly what is left in ruin.<br \/>\nWhosever remains<br \/>\nstanding once the battle<br \/>\n is over is victorious.<br \/>\nWhat the price<br \/>\nor worth<br \/>\nof that victory<br \/>\nmust be decided.<br \/>\nOnly the same sadness<br \/>\nof loss and losses to come.<br \/>\nThere is no end of it,<br \/>\n only the slow<br \/>\npull to the grave<br \/>\n of an individual.<br \/>\nCities of the dead,<br \/>\nin every town.<br \/>\nIf I am the one to die first,<br \/>\n I have no requests.<br \/>\nSave to keep smiling<br \/>\nand to keep my words<br \/>\n in your heart<br \/>\nas a memento<br \/>\nof what you&#8217;re worth.<br \/>\nAnd, please, know you loved<br \/>\nmy hate.<br \/>\nMy broken,<br \/>\nmy shell.<br \/>\nYou loved me anyway.<br \/>\nAnd I will always hold<br \/>\nthat memory with me<br \/>\nand very dear.<br \/>\n But I wish to depart.<br \/>\nStart a new journey, elsewhere.<br \/>\nI will never get &#8220;better&#8221;,<br \/>\nbecause I am fine.<br \/>\nThere is nothing wrong with me.<br \/>\nI am this way,<br \/>\nand I do not wish<br \/>\nto be here<br \/>\nor anywhere<br \/>\nanymore.<br \/>\nThis is my final call,<br \/>\ndying Universe,<br \/>\nthank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t save, only harm. I am Destruction. I have two paths, inward or out. I cannot control the Chaos. There is no right. No wrong. Only what is left in ruin. Whosever remains standing once the battle is over is victorious. What the price&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}