{"id":98983,"date":"2021-06-26T23:33:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=98983"},"modified":"2021-06-26T23:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T03:34:19","slug":"goodbye-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/goodbye-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hour 7, Prompt 15, Year 2021 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was a dark winter night<br \/>\nThe scientist stood in the middle of the woods<br \/>\nStaring at the portal his gun had just created<br \/>\nBeyond, awaited another world<br \/>\nA world just like the one he was in<br \/>\nWith towns and cities and McDonalds and sun and rain<br \/>\nBut it was not this world where he now stood<br \/>\nNot this world that will soon to turn to nought<br \/>\nLike the many before it<br \/>\nThe many before it that he had traveled through<br \/>\nEach world, each civilization, great and grand<br \/>\nTill one day, they were nothing but dust<br \/>\nDust &#8211; natural, nuclear, probably both<br \/>\nHe had never turned back to look<br \/>\nBut this time, as he walked towards the portal<br \/>\nHe made an exception<\/p>\n<p>Back he looked at this world<br \/>\nWhich didn\u2019t just have towns and cities and McDonalds and the likes<br \/>\nBut had so much more<br \/>\nHe saw her again<br \/>\nNot frail like when the cancer had spread<br \/>\nBut young, vital, happy<br \/>\nBefore the radiation took it all away<br \/>\nAnd turned her to dust<\/p>\n<p>If he left, he would still exist in another world<br \/>\nBut she would not<br \/>\nNo, of that he was certain<br \/>\nHe looked at the ground, and he saw her in the dust<br \/>\nHe was tired<br \/>\nHe was sad<br \/>\nHe was ready<br \/>\nHe stopped<\/p>\n<p>At sunrise, the skies blazed a deep orange<br \/>\nDeeper than he had ever seen<br \/>\nA massive ball of fire moving closer and closer<br \/>\nHe had never stayed for this part before<br \/>\nHe had never realized how beautiful it was<br \/>\nThe last sunrise of this great civilization<br \/>\nAnd the last thing he would ever see<br \/>\nThere was nothing else he wanted or needed<br \/>\nHe had been through many worlds<br \/>\nBut this one was home<\/p>\n<p>As he closed his eyes, the sadness lifted<br \/>\nAs he melted into the ground, he was grateful<br \/>\nHe couldn\u2019t have asked for a better end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour 7, Prompt 15, Year 2021 It was a dark winter night The scientist stood in the middle of the woods Staring at the portal his gun had just created Beyond, awaited another world A world just like the one he was in With towns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98983","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\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98993,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98983\/revisions\/98993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}