{"id":55700,"date":"2019-06-23T02:22:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55700"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:24:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:24:28","slug":"dear-former-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/dear-former-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear former lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear you,<\/p>\n<p>years ago I unraveled<\/p>\n<p>you slowly crushed my soul<\/p>\n<p>I dreaded time away from you<\/p>\n<p>you stenciled yourself into my life<\/p>\n<p>and erased yourself when I became more than a easy decision<\/p>\n<p>heartbreak made me weigh seven pounds less<\/p>\n<p>I lived for years in the thick of it<\/p>\n<p>i never saw myself as strong<\/p>\n<p>but you did<\/p>\n<p>i was too small in my existence with you<\/p>\n<p>you rolled me like a monster<\/p>\n<p>blowing kisses to others behind my back<\/p>\n<p>until one day your lies could no longer corrode my organs<\/p>\n<p>you made me bleed my insecurities away<\/p>\n<p>you called me ugly attempting to make me small again<\/p>\n<p>I was no longer starving myself<\/p>\n<p>The absence of you allowed me to fully taste the flavor of what learning self felt like<\/p>\n<p>i had to tend to myself with care<\/p>\n<p>cusping small victories<\/p>\n<p>without fading into the background<\/p>\n<p>Ive always been the underdog<\/p>\n<p>searching for moments worth savoring<\/p>\n<p>You are not one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully,<\/p>\n<p>I am whole again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear you, years ago I unraveled you slowly crushed my soul I dreaded time away from you you stenciled yourself into my life and erased yourself when I became more than a easy decision heartbreak made me weigh seven pounds less I lived for years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700","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\/596"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55782,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55700\/revisions\/55782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}