{"id":49373,"date":"2019-06-22T14:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49373"},"modified":"2019-06-27T08:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:26:10","slug":"prompt-6-rock-bottom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-6-rock-bottom\/","title":{"rendered":"Prompt #6 Rock Bottom"},"content":{"rendered":"
It tastes like grit against your teeth<\/em><\/strong>\r\nand ash upon your tongue.<\/em><\/strong>\r\nIt feels a lot like broken bones\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nand torn muscles from a boxing fight.<\/em><\/strong><\/pre>\n
Humiliating, <\/em><\/strong>\r\nPitiful<\/em><\/strong>\r\nendless agony,<\/em><\/strong>\r\nand a learning curve<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nFeels like being stuck\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nwith no way to make a way.<\/em><\/strong>\r\nSo you grovel in your existence.<\/em><\/strong> \r\n\r\n You start building a house<\/em><\/strong>\r\nand making yourself comfortable.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n____________\r\n\r\nIf there's a rebel within you,<\/em><\/strong>\r\nstart a revolution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nShout out to the stars\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nasking for help\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nto provide you with direction,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nTo help make things clearer and easier.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nAll your power and advantage<\/em><\/strong>\r\nis used against you,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nRewiring you to think and act differently.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nBut, the thing that gets me the most is<\/em><\/strong>\r\nwe as humans are designed to be a superior\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\ncreation, so our problems are not simple.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nand the solutions are often complicated and not complied.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nBut, still despite it all,<\/em><\/strong>\r\nwe cling to our hopes,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nwe define ourselves <\/em><\/strong>\r\nby the amount of successes <\/em><\/strong>\r\nand trophies that decorate our shelves.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nHow come we don't define ourselves\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nand measure our worth based on how many\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nlessons we learned from the countless failures\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nwe accumulate but, <\/em><\/strong>\r\nnever seem to acknowledge their existence.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nIt's the mentality that needs to change<\/em><\/strong>\r\nour attitude<\/em><\/strong>\r\nour perception.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nOnly then can we unstuck ourselves <\/em><\/strong>\r\nfrom rock bottom, moving upwards.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nGrowing,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nblossoming\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nto be better versions of ourselves.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nI believe so long as each one of us are living\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nwe are bound to make mistakes,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nwe must learn from them.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nWe must ornate our shelves with\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nthe lessons we have learned,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nfrom the mistakes we have made.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe day you die\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nthe lesson is over.<\/em><\/strong>\r\nLife itself is the biggest lesson.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\nIt teaches you everything\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\r\nyou were destined to learn in your crazy lifetime.<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n-Janice Raquela Mendonca<\/em><\/strong>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
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It tastes like grit against your teeth and ash upon your tongue. It feels a lot like broken bones\u00a0 and torn muscles from a boxing fight. Humiliating, Pitiful endless agony, and a learning curve Feels like being stuck\u00a0 with no way to make a way….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,2114,1136,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49373","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=49373"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58719,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49373\/revisions\/58719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}