{"id":91780,"date":"2021-06-26T13:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=91780"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:59:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T17:59:06","slug":"1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/1904\/","title":{"rendered":"1904"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waking up from a deep slumber<\/span><\/p>\n

I checked the time – 9:40\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And so I stood up\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stretching my arms and legs\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Until I heard the crack from my back\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The X mark reads June 26, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n

Today is the day,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To put an end to this nightmare<\/span><\/p>\n

I discarded my PJ’s\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To the mirror, I stared\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The dark circle of shining bags below my eyes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Quickly to the shower, I ran<\/span><\/p>\n

Leaving with my rain boots and my working clothes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Onto the shores by the river I crept<\/span><\/p>\n

A grumpy road with a shovel at hand<\/span><\/p>\n

Ready to dig and dig\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To dig up the places I’ve seen\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And dreamt of in my dream\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Although it sometimes comes<\/span><\/p>\n

In flickering flashes and annoying trances<\/span><\/p>\n

Of sparkling revelation and detailed memories\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What will I find?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What treasure will it be?<\/span><\/p>\n

I lifted my face to the moon\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The full moon glowing from the night sky\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What will I find? Indeed<\/span><\/p>\n

And so I went, as if in a dream<\/span><\/p>\n

To the palm tree\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That has the moon on its peak\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To my knees, I knelt<\/span><\/p>\n

Spreading my hands bringing up sands\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I got the shovel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To the dirt, I poked and poked<\/span><\/p>\n

Dug and digged<\/span><\/p>\n

Eureka!<\/span><\/p>\n

Alas! a little wooden battered box<\/span><\/p>\n

With a tiny keyhole on its edges<\/span><\/p>\n

Gladly I grabbed the box and\u00a0 shovel\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Off I ran into my house\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Staring at the box in silence\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And from my neck, I removed the key\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The one my father had once given me before he died\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Click, it opened\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There I found a letter all letter<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dear, you,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0For if you find this letter let it be known to you that it’s time to leave for you have gone around in a circle like Sisyphus if you don’t act accordingly there will you go one repeatedly, repeatedly I say I sent this in the year of 1904. You think I am lying let it be known unto you that when you open this letter on a day as this June 26 2021 find the clue, find your way it’s all in the house. You need to get out of there your life isn’t of Sisyphus it is yours.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Dear, you need to realize that you are me get out of that funk you or me.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And so it happened I fainted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waking up from a deep slumber I checked the time – 9:40\u00a0 And so I stood up\u00a0 Stretching my arms and legs\u00a0 Until I heard the crack from my back\u00a0 The X mark reads June 26, 2021 Today is the day,\u00a0 To put an end…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91780","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\/1361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91816,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91780\/revisions\/91816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}