{"id":61671,"date":"2020-06-27T09:26:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61671"},"modified":"2020-06-27T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:26:36","slug":"black-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/black-conversations\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Black Conversations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be clear I don\u2019t want your sympathy or your empathy.<\/p>\n<p>What I need is the life that was promised to me when my spirit was placed into my mother\u2019s womb.<\/p>\n<p>A life of discovery, patience, vitality with freedom to love hard, live light and laugh feverishly every single day.<\/p>\n<p>Well why don\u2019t you pray?<\/p>\n<p>Praying for a promise that already lies within me.<\/p>\n<p>Access to these things God already gave me the key.<\/p>\n<p>If I pray will this prevent the cops from shooting me?<\/p>\n<p>Will it prevent COVID from consuming my family?<\/p>\n<p>Will it clear the vision for those who see only my brown skin as a sin?<\/p>\n<p>Well you know we trying to do better, but this system is where it all begins.<\/p>\n<p>So why don\u2019t you pray I say?<\/p>\n<p>Praying for my people to fail so yours can prevail.<\/p>\n<p>Access to these things the plantations made sure your lineage secured a generational key.<\/p>\n<p>If you pray would you trade places with me?<\/p>\n<p>Will your prayer be to finally see me?<\/p>\n<p>The invisible strike of your lashes from the whip you never held in your hands.<\/p>\n<p>Well you know my scars are beginning to heal from the trauma of America\u2019s land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Conversations To be clear I don\u2019t want your sympathy or your empathy. What I need is the life that was promised to me when my spirit was placed into my mother\u2019s womb. A life of discovery, patience, vitality with freedom to love hard, live&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61671","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\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61995,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61671\/revisions\/61995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}