{"id":71480,"date":"2020-06-27T21:21:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T01:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=71480"},"modified":"2020-06-27T23:40:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T03:40:50","slug":"nightmares-hour-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/nightmares-hour-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmares-Hour 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wake up<\/p>\n<p>My nightmares still swirling in my head<\/p>\n<p>No amount of positivity can shake it<\/p>\n<p>These days are dark<\/p>\n<p>Pandemics, treason<\/p>\n<p>Murderers caught on video<\/p>\n<p>Riots, treason in broad daylight<\/p>\n<p>Watching the news hurts<\/p>\n<p>Sleep should be the escape<\/p>\n<p>A few hours free of this chaos<\/p>\n<p>Instead my dreams become as bad as being awake<\/p>\n<p>These times we see how powerless we are<\/p>\n<p>How powerless I am<\/p>\n<p>The chaotic nightmare<\/p>\n<p>Is where we are<\/p>\n<p>I try to stay distant<\/p>\n<p>I try to stay safe<\/p>\n<p>But we are holding on<\/p>\n<p>At the edge of a cliff<\/p>\n<p>No rescuer<\/p>\n<p>No ability to lift ourselves up<\/p>\n<p>We are in a tornado<\/p>\n<p>I lay down, wishing for rest<\/p>\n<p>Praying for redemption<\/p>\n<p>For rescue<\/p>\n<p>I am safe until the nightmares begin<\/p>\n<p>I wake up shaking<\/p>\n<p>To find reality is worse<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wake up My nightmares still swirling in my head No amount of positivity can shake it These days are dark Pandemics, treason Murderers caught on video Riots, treason in broad daylight Watching the news hurts Sleep should be the escape A few hours free&#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-71480","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\/71480","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=71480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71649,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71480\/revisions\/71649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}