{"id":76071,"date":"2020-06-28T07:34:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=76071"},"modified":"2020-06-28T07:34:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T11:34:13","slug":"a-wish-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/a-wish-21\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wish # 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how we survive these days<br \/>\nInside phones and our minds<br \/>\nDecorated with sunflower stickers<br \/>\nLaughing about the days of last week<br \/>\nFalling asleep mid conversation<br \/>\nWondering where our friends from old are<br \/>\nSending each other songs we go back to<br \/>\nChecking in on tired souls<br \/>\nCleaning up rusted guitars that don\u2019t sound right<br \/>\nReading lines that stop making sense<br \/>\nPainting papers with colours mixed in two teardrops<br \/>\nUnderstanding how limited words are<br \/>\nAnd what distance means<br \/>\nWhen I try to reach out and hold your hand<\/p>\n<p>Knowing how blessed we are to stay home<br \/>\nWith memories of the past<br \/>\nand how it felt when it rained through the trees<br \/>\nand the butterfly that died sitting on my shelf<br \/>\nthe book I forgot to bring<br \/>\nin my hurry to find home<br \/>\nmourning what will never be<br \/>\nwords unsaid in unseen palaces<br \/>\nthe photograph I didn\u2019t take because I believed time would stay<\/p>\n<p>Wishing you were here<br \/>\nAs grief surrounds the sky<br \/>\nWhile I watch the birds go home<br \/>\nwhen the sun sets from my balcony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how we survive these days Inside phones and our minds Decorated with sunflower stickers Laughing about the days of last week Falling asleep mid conversation Wondering where our friends from old are Sending each other songs we go back to Checking in on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76071","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\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76079,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76071\/revisions\/76079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}