{"id":87749,"date":"2021-06-26T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87749"},"modified":"2021-06-26T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T13:36:20","slug":"something-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/something-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Ending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hugged you to say goodbye<br \/>\neight thousand miles<br \/>\ncompressed between<br \/>\nour beating hearts<\/p>\n<p><em>I love you<\/em>, I said<br \/>\nYou said you loved me too<br \/>\ntears already flowing<br \/>\n<em>I just want you to be happy<\/em>, I whispered<\/p>\n<p>and felt your shoulders stiffen<br \/>\nI kissed your cheek<br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m not blind<\/em>, I let go<br \/>\nand you went away crying<\/p>\n<p><em>What did you say to her?<\/em><br \/>\nour brother asked<br \/>\n<em>What a sister needs to say<\/em>, I told him<br \/>\nHe nodded and turned away<\/p>\n<p>What will end now<br \/>\nbecause of this?<br \/>\nYour abusive marriage?<br \/>\nYour relationship with your family?<\/p>\n<p>You are already<br \/>\nso far away from us<br \/>\neven with each visit<br \/>\nyou are more &#8220;other&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How do these stories end?<br \/>\nDivorce? Death? Reconciliation?<br \/>\nWith children who will recount years later<br \/>\nthe night I made their mother cry?<\/p>\n<p>It is the beginning of the end<br \/>\nof something<br \/>\nEight thousand miles apart<br \/>\nour two hearts beating<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt 1: Write a poem about something ending.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hugged you to say goodbye eight thousand miles compressed between our beating hearts I love you, I said You said you loved me too tears already flowing I just want you to be happy, I whispered and felt your shoulders stiffen I kissed your&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87749","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\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87897,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87749\/revisions\/87897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}