{"id":48308,"date":"2019-06-22T12:24:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T16:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=48308"},"modified":"2019-06-27T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:07:52","slug":"prompt-4-numb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-4-numb\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #4 Numb"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_48427\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48427\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48427\" src=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sepehr-ghorbanpoor-1513570-unsplash-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sepehr-ghorbanpoor-1513570-unsplash-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sepehr-ghorbanpoor-1513570-unsplash-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sepehr-ghorbanpoor-1513570-unsplash-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sepehr-ghorbanpoor-1513570-unsplash-1-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">image by poetry marathon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<pre><em><strong>Dead from the inside\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>I am numb.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>A complete shut down<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>unresponsive to the external.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Immovable, life wasting away.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Tired eyes and hungry heart <\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>all dead in a row.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>No thirst to quench<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>no dreams to conquer<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>powerless in one way<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>powerful in another<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>- nothing affects me.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Nothing to lose,<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>no fear, no feelings,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>no attachment, no sorrow,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Just the bottomless pit <\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>of nothingness -encroaching.<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n<pre class=\"entry-content\"><em><strong>Overtaking... overcoming...\r\n<\/strong><strong>infectious and familiar<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n<pre><em><strong>It feels comfortable, <\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>I am doomed anyway,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Damned if I do,<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Damned if I don't.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Hopelessness looms\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>like a shadow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Wasted life,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Wasted years,<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>The Pointlessness of the point,<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>at the edge of reason\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>and lingering disappointment.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Far from any harm,<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>removed and isolated<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>detached and unemotional,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>I let that shit go.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Only to dive deep<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Head first into the chaos of living.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>The madness of emotions.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>The passage through life.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\n<em><strong>I am waking up,<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>Undoing these chains\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>that have held me down\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>for far too long.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>I am becoming human.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>I am living.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n\r\n<em><strong>I open the doors\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\r\n<em><strong>and let it surge.<\/strong><\/em>\r\n\r\n<em><strong>-Janice Raquela Mendonca\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead from the inside\u00a0 I am numb. A complete shut down unresponsive to the external. Immovable, life wasting away. Tired eyes and hungry heart all dead in a row. No thirst to quench no dreams to conquer powerless in one way powerful in another -&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,2114,1136,5],"tags":[2888],"class_list":["post-48308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-numb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48308","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=48308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58715,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48308\/revisions\/58715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}