{"id":74181,"date":"2020-06-28T03:03:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74181"},"modified":"2020-06-29T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:40:38","slug":"insomnia-hr-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/insomnia-hr-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Insomnia (HR 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">Wide awake<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Mr. Sandman where are my dreams?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Silence all around me<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Chaos in my head<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Blank stares<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">It\u2019s 3\u00a0am<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">I should be sleep<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">But I\u2019m sitting straight up in bed<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">My anxiety is playing tricks on me<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">The lack of sleep got me questioning my sanity<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Snap back to reality<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">My heart is racing<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">I feel the panic settling in<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">The fear floods my insides<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Here\u2019s the start of the panic attacks again<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Breathe<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Pray<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">This has become a everyday thing<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Anxiety<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Depression<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">It\u2019s real<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">And it\u2019s a awful feeling<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">The stress always keeps me worrying<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Even when I tell myself everything is okay<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Sleeplessness has become my normal<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">There has to be a better way<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">At this point I can\u2019t deny<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">I wish I could get my old life back<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">The one where my mom was still here<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Back when everything didn\u2019t weigh so heavy on my spirit<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">Back before I became an insomniac<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wide awake Mr. Sandman where are my dreams? Silence all around me Chaos in my head Blank stares It\u2019s 3\u00a0am I should be sleep But I\u2019m sitting straight up in bed My anxiety is playing tricks on me The lack of sleep got me questioning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181","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\/1307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77472,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74181\/revisions\/77472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}