{"id":93009,"date":"2021-06-26T15:38:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93009"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:38:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:38:43","slug":"hour-5-the-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-5-the-time-capsule\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 5 &#8211; The Time Capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mediate, they say.<\/p>\n<p>Let me go.<\/p>\n<p>See only the moment<\/p>\n<p>And the mantra in your mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I put on headphones,<\/p>\n<p>I close all the doors.<\/p>\n<p>I sit in the bath,<\/p>\n<p>And let all else go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But sitting there in space,<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not solitary,<\/p>\n<p>For in the stillness<\/p>\n<p>That damned box sits<\/p>\n<p>Filed with all that<\/p>\n<p>Waits Until Later.<\/p>\n<p>I sit with my back against it,<\/p>\n<p>The corners pressed in sharp lines across me,<\/p>\n<p>To comfort and castigate me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shall I pull the tatted shawl off the box and open the rusted hinges?<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I&#8217;ll add another knitted layer to it instead,<\/p>\n<p>Muffling its rust AMD wails a little bit more.<\/p>\n<p>Why should I look inside it anyway?<\/p>\n<p>I remember every harsh and hurtful thing I Squeezed and shoved through the keyhole.<\/p>\n<p>Screaming in agony as I felt out treat from my flesh and wiggle through.<\/p>\n<p>Let the capsule remain as it is,<\/p>\n<p>So all my griefs can ache together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mediate, they say. Let me go. See only the moment And the mantra in your mind. &nbsp; So I put on headphones, I close all the doors. I sit in the bath, And let all else go. &nbsp; But sitting there in space, It&#8217;s not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93009","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\/1563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93184,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93009\/revisions\/93184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}