{"id":64357,"date":"2020-06-27T12:20:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T16:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=64357"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:44:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:44:47","slug":"letter-to-an-old-friend-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/letter-to-an-old-friend-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to an Old Friend- Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time<\/p>\n<p>A decade at least<\/p>\n<p>We failed our friendship<\/p>\n<p>Again<\/p>\n<p>I think about you, wonder<\/p>\n<p>But always cautiously<\/p>\n<p>Never willing to reach out<\/p>\n<p>Never able to forgive<\/p>\n<p>Our path together was always divergent<\/p>\n<p>Always caught up in egos and prejudices<\/p>\n<p>I know I can never trust you<\/p>\n<p>Never believe in you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if our paths will converge again<\/p>\n<p>If I will be ignorant enough<\/p>\n<p>To fall under your spell<\/p>\n<p>What I crave can kill me<\/p>\n<p>What I hate can keep me strong<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our karma too thick<\/p>\n<p>Too murky<\/p>\n<p>Too dangerous<\/p>\n<p>I keep you far away<\/p>\n<p>To keep my heart safe,<\/p>\n<p>My life calm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You my greatest foe<\/p>\n<p>My soulmate of sorrow<\/p>\n<p>My constant refrain of decay<\/p>\n<p>Wasted, crumbling<\/p>\n<p>Deterioration<\/p>\n<p>So much we could have done<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonder we survived<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a long time A decade at least We failed our friendship Again I think about you, wonder But always cautiously Never willing to reach out Never able to forgive Our path together was always divergent Always caught up in egos and prejudices I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64357","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64555,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64357\/revisions\/64555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}