{"id":58430,"date":"2019-06-24T13:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=58430"},"modified":"2019-06-24T13:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:06:49","slug":"first-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/first-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"First Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"CENTER\">It&#8217;s going to hurt<\/p>\n<p>for so long<\/p>\n<p>I just want it to end<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have so much pain<\/p>\n<p>inside<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gotta come out somehow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No one noticed the pain<\/p>\n<p>How could they?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve got their own<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only one<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I just don&#8217;t understand<\/p>\n<p>How could God come to<\/p>\n<p>take her home with him<\/p>\n<p>Why I found her<\/p>\n<p>Why the image won&#8217;t leave<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You had such a beautiful smile<\/p>\n<p>grace<\/p>\n<p>way about you<\/p>\n<p>and I don&#8217;t even remember<\/p>\n<p>your voice<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have pictures to remind me<\/p>\n<p>of your smile and how<\/p>\n<p>you look<\/p>\n<p>but it&#8217;s no substitute<\/p>\n<p>for hav ing you here<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I took you for granted<\/p>\n<p>so many times<\/p>\n<p>I had child like fantasies<\/p>\n<p>where you would always<\/p>\n<p>be here and Dad would<\/p>\n<p>be my knight in shining armor<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I really need to punch<\/p>\n<p>something<\/p>\n<p>But what?<\/p>\n<p>Anything to get my<\/p>\n<p>pain out<\/p>\n<p>By any means necessary<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m survivng<\/p>\n<p>Barely<\/p>\n<p>Just barely holding<\/p>\n<p>my head above the<\/p>\n<p>flood<\/p>\n<p>that threatens to bury me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m drowning-<\/p>\n<p>Just drowning to<\/p>\n<p>the point of being<\/p>\n<p>overcome<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t find a way<\/p>\n<p>to get out from under<\/p>\n<p>this<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s choking me<\/p>\n<p>hands around my throat<\/p>\n<p>Squeezing tight<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t breathe<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One second I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p>Happy, laughing<\/p>\n<p>Next?<\/p>\n<p>Angry and so ready to<\/p>\n<p>punch something<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lying here alone<\/p>\n<p>I need you here<\/p>\n<p>You made living easy<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going to hurt for so long I just want it to end &nbsp; I have so much pain inside It&#8217;s gotta come out somehow &nbsp; No one noticed the pain How could they? They&#8217;ve got their own I&#8217;m not the only one &nbsp; I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58430","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\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58433,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58430\/revisions\/58433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}