{"id":74523,"date":"2020-06-28T03:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T07:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=74523"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:25:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:25:57","slug":"a-burden-too-heavy-for-a-human-is-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-burden-too-heavy-for-a-human-is-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"A Burden too Heavy for a Human is Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Burden too Heavy for a Human is Grief<\/p>\n<p>The only way to nail your demon to Golgotha<br \/>\nwithout resurrecting is to have a friend close,<br \/>\nto bear your burden with you. No complaints.<br \/>\nNo fears. I felt grief is too heavy for you alone.<br \/>\nAnd I sacrificed my body for you; whichever way,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m with you because what we fight is no human.<br \/>\nNo bodies. No spirit. Just a haunting look<br \/>\nin the dark. This way, I understand what it means<br \/>\nto be a fragment of something bigger than the world.<br \/>\nDo not say I&#8217;m too young to be here in spirit.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a way spirits hold themselves together.<br \/>\nHold hands with me. Close your eyes and hum a song.<br \/>\nOr Rest on me. Listen to what the angels are singing,<br \/>\na song which you&#8217;ve never heard before.<br \/>\n&#8216;Don&#8217;t you know how precious you are to us?<br \/>\nStay alive with us. There are so many years unfought. &#8216;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Burden too Heavy for a Human is Grief The only way to nail your demon to Golgotha without resurrecting is to have a friend close, to bear your burden with you. No complaints. No fears. I felt grief is too heavy for you alone&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74523","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\/1398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86341,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74523\/revisions\/86341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}