{"id":55863,"date":"2019-06-23T02:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=55863"},"modified":"2019-06-23T02:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T06:44:37","slug":"distance-poem-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/distance-poem-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Distance (Poem #18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m millions of miles away<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m on my own adventure<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m learning new things<\/p>\n<p>Another language<\/p>\n<p>Things about myself<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m growing<\/p>\n<p>And yet<\/p>\n<p>At the start and finish<\/p>\n<p>The beginning and end<\/p>\n<p>Of every single day<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help it<\/p>\n<p>I become completely overtaken<\/p>\n<p>My brain dysfunctional<\/p>\n<p>My body immobile<\/p>\n<p>My entire being inactive<\/p>\n<p>I become completely on autopilot<\/p>\n<p>My heart begins to slow down<\/p>\n<p>My pulse almost untraceable<\/p>\n<p>My eyes begin to fill<\/p>\n<p>As if the dam was let open<\/p>\n<p>What am I to do?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as if<\/p>\n<p>My whole life is finally falling into place<\/p>\n<p>Yet my whole life<\/p>\n<p>It means nothing without you<\/p>\n<p>This distance drives me crazy<\/p>\n<p>This distance makes me weak<\/p>\n<p>I feel strong because I have you<\/p>\n<p>yet this distance<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t handle this distance<\/p>\n<p>You make me feel alive<\/p>\n<p>You make my life worth living<\/p>\n<p>I know I found my Boaz<\/p>\n<p>My Romeo<\/p>\n<p>My knight in shining armor<\/p>\n<p>I know I found you<\/p>\n<p>I found the one my heart beat matches<\/p>\n<p>The one whose hand fits perfectly in mine<\/p>\n<p>The one who is there in the darkest of times<\/p>\n<p>I found the one my soul longs for<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s you<\/p>\n<p>This distance makes us stronger<\/p>\n<p>The distance can\u2019t stay between<\/p>\n<p>You are the one that was made for me<\/p>\n<p>This distance has to leave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m millions of miles away I\u2019m on my own adventure I\u2019m learning new things Another language Things about myself I\u2019m growing And yet At the start and finish The beginning and end Of every single day I can\u2019t help it I become completely overtaken My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,2114],"tags":[2846,680],"class_list":["post-55863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous","category-official-marathon-announcement","tag-2019poetrymarahon","tag-poetrymarathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55863","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\/1188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55869,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55863\/revisions\/55869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}