Didn\u2019t you hear?
\nThe world is ending.
\nHumans lost the race
\nagainst the Gods, again.
\nThey\u2019re the hare
\nwith the exception
\nof us two tortoises.
\nAs the inferno consumes
\nthe rest of them
\nlet\u2019s lie on the grass
\ngaze upon the burning sky
\nand look for shapes in the clouds of fire.
\nRelinquish our ties
\ntheir destruction is our creation.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re Adam and Eve
\nwith no drawback to temptation.
\nRoam the continents
\nand claim them as ours
\nthere\u2019s no one to dispute.
\nI\u2019ll rename the lands old bands
\nGreenland is Greenday
\nThough, America and Asia can stay.
\nYou can renovate the landmarks
\ncarve our faces onto Rushmore
\nstraighten the Leaning Tower.
\nWe don\u2019t need to give in
\nto Ozymandian sentiments.
\nThe war did that already.<\/p>\n
Look on our Works, ye Mighty, and despair!<\/em> Didn\u2019t you hear? The world is ending. Humans lost the race against the Gods, again. They\u2019re the hare with the exception of us two tortoises. As the inferno consumes the rest of them let\u2019s lie on the grass gaze upon the burning sky and look…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57939","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\/1142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57939"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58296,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57939\/revisions\/58296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNothing can touch us here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"