{"id":87788,"date":"2021-06-26T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T14:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=87788"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:37:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:37:03","slug":"long-run-at-dawn-surya-t-poetry-marathon-poem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/long-run-at-dawn-surya-t-poetry-marathon-poem-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Run at Dawn | Surya T | Poetry Marathon Poem 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Beep&#8230; Beep&#8230; Beep<\/em><br \/>\nthe alarm&#8217;s ritual has begun<br \/>\nbefore dawn arrives, waking me up<br \/>\nit fulfilled its duty and now it&#8217;s mine<\/p>\n<p>The torch of greatness is in my hand<br \/>\nthe torch flaming like never seen<br \/>\neach bead of sweat as fuel<br \/>\nthe fire keeps burning bright<\/p>\n<p>Snooze or Wake up? My hand deliberated<br \/>\nto stop this process or repeat again<br \/>\na few more minutes or sleep?<br \/>\nworth risking waking up too late?<\/p>\n<p>The flame slowly grew dimmer<br \/>\nfuel was running out<br \/>\na little while and it&#8217;ll run out<br \/>\nputting the flame in a grave<\/p>\n<p>I pulled down on the phone to wake up<br \/>\nsnoozing isn&#8217;t an option anymore<br \/>\nI had to get on the road<br \/>\nmy ritual is awaiting me<\/p>\n<p>the torch is becoming lighter<br \/>\nI take a few steps forward, increasing my speed<br \/>\nbeads of sweat form on my temple<br \/>\nthe flame starts burning brighter<\/p>\n<p>I pull up my socks and tie my shoes<br \/>\nhugging my legs, my shoes fill confidence in me<br \/>\nYou can run for long, far, and wide<br \/>\nthey silently scream into my leg<\/p>\n<p>The flame is burning brighter<br \/>\nshowing me the way forward<br \/>\nmy heart rate is elated<br \/>\nand the music in my ears too!<\/p>\n<p>The world is silent, yet to wake up<br \/>\nthe birds asleep in their nests<br \/>\nand the dogs curled up on the road<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s still time for the world to wake up<\/p>\n<p>The trees blow gently on my face<br \/>\nCaressing and wiping the sweat<br \/>\nEach step burns the torch brighter<br \/>\nThe torch of light is near its former glory<\/p>\n<p>The sun shies behind towering mountains<br \/>\nThe wind moves gently among the leaves<br \/>\nthe sleeping snore in unison<br \/>\n<em>breathing in&#8230; breathing out&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The torch is burning brighter<br \/>\nthe warmth seeping to my own being<br \/>\nmy heart feels at one with nature<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><em>breathing in&#8230; breathing out&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sun peeks from behind the mountain<br \/>\nthe wind makes a gentle sound<br \/>\nwake up, my dears- the trees sound<br \/>\nthe birds begin their morning song<\/p>\n<p>Nature&#8217;s pleasant alarm clocks, they are<br \/>\nwaking up their fellows<br \/>\nmy legs feel a soreness,<br \/>\nyet my heart wants to go on<\/p>\n<p>10 kilometers, the app notifies me<br \/>\nit&#8217;s been a long run so far<br \/>\nyet I feel I haven&#8217;t gone far at all<br \/>\nmy heart wants to race on over<\/p>\n<p>The torch burns brighter and brighter<br \/>\nEach bead of sweat keeping the flame alive<br \/>\nthe torch burns brighter<br \/>\nand it&#8217;s not going to ever die<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Surya T<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beep&#8230; Beep&#8230; Beep the alarm&#8217;s ritual has begun before dawn arrives, waking me up it fulfilled its duty and now it&#8217;s mine The torch of greatness is in my hand the torch flaming like never seen each bead of sweat as fuel the fire keeps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4190,4191,4120],"class_list":["post-87788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-long-run-at-dawn","tag-poetry-hour-2","tag-surya-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87788","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\/3791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89073,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87788\/revisions\/89073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}