{"id":114030,"date":"2022-06-25T17:50:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=114030"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T21:50:44","slug":"the-lover-prompt-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/the-lover-prompt-8\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lover Prompt\u00a0 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is it about you that compels me to\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">find you, to seek you out? Is there comfort,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">or hope for a future with you? No! Yes! You\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">offer me nothing more than a short affair<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">no matter how many times I seek something\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">more from within your darkness. You come\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to me in different forms. You hide behind\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">different names. You entwine and embed yourself\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with others that dilute you, your taste, your smell,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">your touch, how you feel upon my tongue. You . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">what is it about you that compels me to<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">demand your best self, not just any self. Sometimes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">you are warm, even hotter than the devil. At other times<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">more from within your darkness. You come\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to me cool, chilled or frozen. You make me happy\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and restore balance to my soul, my 90% cocoa.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about you that compels me to\u00a0 find you, to seek you out? Is there comfort,\u00a0 &nbsp; or hope for a future with you? No! Yes! You\u00a0 offer me nothing more than a short affair no matter how many times I seek something\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114030","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\/1339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114039,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114030\/revisions\/114039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}