{"id":107831,"date":"2022-06-25T19:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T23:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=107831"},"modified":"2023-02-08T13:53:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T18:53:46","slug":"trying-not-to-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/trying-not-to-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying not to love you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You went a different way &amp; made it clear:<\/p>\n<p>either get on board or get lost.<\/p>\n<p>Now I conduct the train from the bowels of obscurity.<\/p>\n<p>How could anyone ask for more?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the least you<\/p>\n<p>deserve because at the end of the day,<\/p>\n<p>trying not to love you is like trying not to exist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You might as well try to explain the essence of music<\/p>\n<p>or the color of starlight, perhaps even breathe through<\/p>\n<p>your feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Long after time has ended &amp; vanished into the bowels<\/p>\n<p>of obscurity,<\/p>\n<p>my love for you will endure<\/p>\n<p>But as long you&#8217;re contented, I&#8217;ll follow suit with the railcar<\/p>\n<p>in tow. Because at the end of the day,<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s better to have a surplus than a substantial dearth.<\/p>\n<p>How could anyone ask for more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You went a different way &amp; made it clear: either get on board or get lost. Now I conduct the train from the bowels of obscurity. How could anyone ask for more? It&#8217;s the least you deserve because at the end of the day, trying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107831","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\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107831"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125305,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107831\/revisions\/125305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}