{"id":63516,"date":"2020-06-27T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=63516"},"modified":"2020-06-27T11:26:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T15:26:35","slug":"hour-3-2020-original-the-human-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/hour-3-2020-original-the-human-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 3 (2020, Original) – \u201cThe Human Chase\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not in \u201cThe Bop\u201d style, as the Official Prompt suggests; but it does discuss many current world problems. So, I hope this may suffice.\u00a0<\/strong>{Potential Trigger Warning!!}<\/em>
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THE HUMAN CHASE – By: H.J \/ author H.J \u00a9\ufe0f<\/p>\n

<\/i><\/u>They only love me when I\u2019m beaming,
\nonly love me when I\u2019m strong;
\nthey only love me when I am standing on equal sides of wrong.<\/p>\n

They will hate me for my lover and they\u2019ll hate me for my voice;
\nThey\u2019ll hate me for my body,
\nfor my peace
\nand for my choice.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll hate me for my gender and the way I keep my hair.
\nThey\u2019ll hate when I show up
\nand they will hate when I\u2019m not there.<\/p>\n

They will hate me for my space
\nand for all my boundaries too;
\nThey\u2019ll hate that I won\u2019t let them in and hate my passion when I do.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll hate me for my Faith;
\nfor my culture, shade of skin.
\nThey\u2019ll hate me for my parents,
\nMother\u2019s tongue and origin –
\nThey\u2019ll hate my primal randoms, when I never had a say.
\nThey\u2019ll hate it when I try and they\u2019ll hate when I don\u2019t play.<\/p>\n

They will hate me for my courage, they will hate me for my fear.
\nThey\u2019ll hate me for my rest,
\nhate my optimism and career –
\nThey\u2019ll hate me for my apathy,<\/p><\/div>\n

for my tears and for my cheer;<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll hate all my success
\nand hate each idle,
\npassing year.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll hate me for my freedom;
\nand for seclusion, too –
\nThey will hate when I\u2019m not me and they\u2019ll hate that I\u2019m not you.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll hate my education and
\nalthough I try to learn;
\nThey\u2019ll hate what I don\u2019t know
\nand claim I \u2018want\u2019 to watch things burn.<\/p>\n

They will hate me for my clothes,
\nfor my safety and my woes.
\nThey\u2019ll hate me for ideas,
\nfor my story
\nand my prose.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll hate me for my money,
\nfor my house and for my kids;
\nThey will hate me for my street post and because I sleep on skids.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ll hate on my redemption and will hate me for my sin.
\nThey\u2019ll hate each point of wisdom,
\nand when I don\u2019t know where to begin.<\/p>\n

They will hate it when I share; and keep calling it a bluff –
\nThen they hate when I deplete and shout \u2018it still isn\u2019t enough!\u2019.<\/p>\n

They will hate me when I\u2019m hungry;
\nand for anything I eat,
\nThey\u2019ll hate me when I\u2019m healthy; and any rough day of the week.<\/p>\n

They will hate me for my wheelchair,
\nall my aids,
\nand my legs, too;<\/p>\n

They will hate each type of function;
\nWhat I can and cannot do.<\/p>\n

If the goal is \u2018never\u2019 hate; then why keep choosing to?
\nHistory is gone, until we bring it into view –
\nbut can we consciously remember;
\nwithout being toxic, too?<\/p>\n

More hate will only perpetuate
\nthe loss and lack we hope to satiate;
\nThe patterns in each corner
\nmean this pain may never end –
\nThey will hate and hate and shake and break;
\nTaking pieces \u2018til I\u2019m dead.<\/p>\n

Then?
\nIn the name of \u2018vengeful mourning\u2019,
\nThey\u2019ll repeat The Chase again.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/i><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is not in \u201cThe Bop\u201d style, as the Official Prompt suggests; but it does discuss many current world problems. So, I hope this may suffice.\u00a0{Potential Trigger Warning!!}   THE HUMAN CHASE – By: H.J \/ author H.J \u00a9\ufe0f They only love me when I\u2019m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516","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\/1283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63806,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63516\/revisions\/63806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}