{"id":90827,"date":"2021-06-26T12:53:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90827"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:53:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:53:48","slug":"its-okay-to-not-be-okay-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/its-okay-to-not-be-okay-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Okay to Not Be Okay (Hour 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>It\u2019s Okay to Not Be Okay<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By: LuvMiFreely<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Hour 4)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bottled up feelings\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sealed tight<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Afraid to let any of those collected tears to leak out<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All the years of pent up angry<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It all fills the bottle to the brim\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">No room left for anything else to go wrong<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You pull it out when you need a reminder<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Of the memories you\u2019re afraid to let go of<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You grip it firmly\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Protecting all the chaos<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You\u2019re scared for everything to fall apart\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Again\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But this time as you stare at that bottle<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The tears forming in your eyes cloud your vision<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There\u2019s no place for them to gather<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As they run down your face<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Onto the security net you protect with your life<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The wetness of your tears causing the bottle to slip right out your hand<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You watch as it shatters<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Forcing you to face the fact that you can no longer hold it all in<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You allow yourself to feel every emotion that you\u2019ve been denying<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cry\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It feels good to let go<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Okay to Not Be Okay By: LuvMiFreely (Hour 4) Bottled up feelings\u00a0 Sealed tight Afraid to let any of those collected tears to leak out All the years of pent up angry It all fills the bottle to the brim\u00a0 No room left 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