{"id":99760,"date":"2021-06-27T01:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=99760"},"modified":"2021-06-27T01:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T05:21:39","slug":"seeing-through-me-surya-t-poetry-marathon-poem-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/seeing-through-me-surya-t-poetry-marathon-poem-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing through me | Surya T | Poetry Marathon Poem 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember those stares through me<br \/>\npeople forgetting I am there<br \/>\neven though I am right beside them<br \/>\nfelt like a ghost<\/p>\n<p>I often wondered if I existed<br \/>\nor am I just a ghost whispering things<br \/>\nIgnored by people I called friends<br \/>\nwhen I am sitting right there<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t count the number of times<br \/>\nI was left alone in a restaurant<br \/>\nbecause I spent one too many moments<br \/>\nin the bathroom and my friends forgot me<\/p>\n<p>I listen a lot, while talk really less<br \/>\nAfter a while, my own existence doesn&#8217;t make a difference<br \/>\nYet I felt comfort in listening<br \/>\nwhen other people talked around me<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m here&#8221; I want to yell<br \/>\nbut I&#8217;m scared to make a scene<br \/>\n&#8220;Notice me&#8221; I want to ask<br \/>\nwithout sounding like an attention whore<\/p>\n<p>Grant me a wish, God<br \/>\nIf you exist and are merciful<br \/>\nI can deal with loneliness<br \/>\nbut being invisible, I don&#8217;t think I can<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<em>Surya T<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember those stares through me people forgetting I am there even though I am right beside them felt like a ghost I often wondered if I existed or am I just a ghost whispering things Ignored by people I called friends when I am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99760","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\/3791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99795,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99760\/revisions\/99795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}