{"id":55464,"date":"2019-06-23T01:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T05:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55464"},"modified":"2019-06-23T01:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T05:32:30","slug":"prompt-19-the-end-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/prompt-19-the-end-2\/","title":{"rendered":"prompt 19:  the end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>the end<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The farther away we get from our Mother,<\/p>\n<p>the more of Her we break<\/p>\n<p>dirty<\/p>\n<p>heap with hatred.<\/p>\n<p>We demand our desires be filled<\/p>\n<p>at Her expense<\/p>\n<p>at our peril.<\/p>\n<p>Our wounded egos filled with all manner of things<\/p>\n<p>to feed our starving souls<\/p>\n<p>made obese on all manner of images made to make us blind,<\/p>\n<p>hate our neighbor,<\/p>\n<p>deaf to the weeping willows begging us to remember our beginnings<\/p>\n<p>when love made us all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When love made us all,<\/p>\n<p>we could not know our destruction did not hide in darkness or hate<\/p>\n<p>but in greedy indifference.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(c) r.l.elke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the end The farther away we get from our Mother, the more of Her we break dirty heap with hatred. We demand our desires be filled at Her expense at our peril. Our wounded egos filled with all manner of things to feed our starving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,12,2114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-musings","category-official-marathon-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55464","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\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55500,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55464\/revisions\/55500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}