{"id":89217,"date":"2021-06-26T11:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89217"},"modified":"2021-06-26T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T15:01:56","slug":"homesick-hour-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/homesick-hour-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Homesick &#8211; Hour 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I turn left and right<br \/>\nI close my eyes tight<br \/>\nI reach out with my heart<br \/>\nTo that moment we part<br \/>\nTake me across two continents<br \/>\nBack to those sweet moments<br \/>\nWhere my heart knew calm<br \/>\nAnd I did not need lip balm<br \/>\nIn the arms of dearests<br \/>\nAll I want is to rest<br \/>\nThis perpetual anxiety<br \/>\nContinues to haunt me<br \/>\nWhat great sorrow<br \/>\nTo know that tomorrow<br \/>\nMy mother\u2019s touch remains unreachable<br \/>\nMy father\u2019s roaring sneeze barely memorable<br \/>\nPainfully learning everyday<br \/>\nWhat I wouldn\u2019t give<br \/>\nTo be able to hold my little brother in my arms again<br \/>\nSometimes my every being<br \/>\nWants to scream<br \/>\nTake me home<br \/>\nAlmost like a myth<br \/>\nTrapped in this picture of perfect bliss<br \/>\nTake me home<br \/>\nEven if just a lie created in my head<br \/>\nThat returning home may grant relief<br \/>\nTo console myself from this daily dread<br \/>\nPerhaps escape is what I really need<br \/>\nEven then is it not my right<br \/>\nTo want to return home tonight<br \/>\nBelittle not the plight of refugees<br \/>\nThere are no other aches like these<br \/>\nTake me home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turn left and right I close my eyes tight I reach out with my heart To that moment we part Take me across two continents Back to those sweet moments Where my heart knew calm And I did not need lip balm In the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89217","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\/1399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89231,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89217\/revisions\/89231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}