{"id":113192,"date":"2022-06-25T16:51:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=113192"},"modified":"2022-06-25T16:52:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T20:52:07","slug":"hour-7-my-love-is-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/hour-7-my-love-is-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 7: My Love is the River"},"content":{"rendered":"

The river flows, and for some it fades<\/span><\/p>\n

When I come back tomorrow, she\u2019s not the same\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But I still call it a river\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have cried many rivers, and drowned many sinners\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In my journals and my bedrooms<\/span><\/p>\n

In dark, eerie parking lots\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Where if you go late enough, magic blooms<\/span><\/p>\n

And touch sparks lights bright enough to make you believe\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Every crease, was worth the pain of carving\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Disarming my soul so you can take a look<\/span><\/p>\n

Call it a hook\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His smile, and maybe my eyes<\/span><\/p>\n

And oh, now we\u2019ve spilled a dream all over my dress<\/span><\/p>\n

I shake it off but its stained my skin<\/span><\/p>\n

Akin to his love, now I have dreams stuck to my pillow\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I try to wash it while the tide is still low\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When did my river become an ocean?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some potion, some spell, he left behind some shelf last he stayed<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m entrapped, now that\u2019s just rude<\/span><\/p>\n

Crude skin under my finger tips, at the cusp of desire<\/span><\/p>\n

But I am not tomorrow what I was tonight\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And he loves in spite<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the scarred bedroom walls, and empty bathroom stalls\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of stale lingering desire in unattended mire<\/span><\/p>\n

And so my love must be a river,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It must flow and it must fade,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So I am neither scarred bedroom wall, nor someone else\u2019s desire\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I am new today, as I will be tomorrow\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Love me today and again tomorrow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The river flows, and for some it fades When I come back tomorrow, she\u2019s not the same\u00a0 But I still call it a river\u00a0 I have cried many rivers, and drowned many sinners\u00a0 In my journals and my bedrooms In dark, eerie parking lots\u00a0 Where…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113192","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\/930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113211,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113192\/revisions\/113211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}