I never dreaded hearing\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Alone. Alone. Alone.<\/span><\/p>\n As no one simply heard me<\/span><\/p>\n Or believe my story<\/span><\/p>\n The look on their faces\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The whispers behind my back<\/span><\/p>\n The stopping of talk\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n When I entered the room<\/span><\/p>\n The nonchalant use of the word or\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n avoidance of the terminology ( mentally ill)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n use to describe the incident<\/span><\/p>\n As if it wasn\u2019t of nature\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Something they never had dealt with<\/span><\/p>\n Treating you like a child\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Like you don\u2019t know how to deal<\/span><\/p>\n Like you were learning how to<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0Tie your shoes for the first time<\/span><\/p>\n Alone is all I felt<\/span><\/p>\n As I sat in a house full of loved ones<\/span><\/p>\n Alone and disconnected<\/span><\/p>\n Thinking of how things got this way<\/span><\/p>\n Too much of what was never said\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Too much of what was never done<\/span><\/p>\n Too much, just too much<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Wondering what is yet now to become of me?<\/span><\/p>\n How will life unfold from here?<\/span><\/p>\n Where does the river flow?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Will It turn into sea or\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Circle back around the riverbend?<\/span><\/p>\n Alone at 25 feeling like 85<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0With no will to die or expire<\/span><\/p>\n just tired.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ALONE The word I thought\u00a0 I never dreaded hearing\u00a0 Alone. Alone. Alone. As no one simply heard me Or believe my story The look on their faces\u00a0 The whispers behind my back The stopping of talk\u00a0 When I entered the room The nonchalant use of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1529,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1136,5],"tags":[4073,4071,4075,4072,4074,180,1368,922,268,4070,777],"class_list":["post-78980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-abandon","tag-alienated","tag-blues","tag-companionless","tag-eighty-six","tag-alone","tag-depression","tag-forgotten","tag-me","tag-myselfi","tag-sad","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78980","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\/1529"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78980"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78983,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78980\/revisions\/78983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1a8eefb113df6076a80ca14aaa23405d-190x300.jpg\")
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