He was the most gentle of souls —
\nplaying his violin for the kittens at the shelter
\nso they would not be lonely.<\/p>\n
On that night, he was just walking home,
\ncarrying an iced tea for his brother
\nand, yes, he was singing and dancing
\nin his own special way.<\/p>\n
For this, the police were called.
\nFor this, the police put him in a chokehold.
\nFor this, the paramedics injected him with a sedative.
\nFor this, Elijah was killed.<\/p>\n
I was just going home Today we are all Elijah. He was the most gentle of souls — playing his violin for the kittens at the shelter so they would not be lonely. On that night, he was just walking home, carrying an iced tea for his brother and, yes, he was singing and dancing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3811],"class_list":["post-70959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-elijah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959","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\/1287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70985,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70959\/revisions\/70985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI\u2019m just different
\nI\u2019m an introvert
\n<\/em>That\u2019s all <\/em><\/p>\n
\nWe are all different.
\nWe are all gentle souls.
\nIn this time, right now,
\nthat is an enormous thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"