{"id":128600,"date":"2023-09-02T13:04:21","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=128600"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:04:21","slug":"if-you-water-it-it-will-grow-hour-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/if-you-water-it-it-will-grow-hour-4\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Water It, It Will Grow (Hour 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never legitimately considered forever<\/p>\n<p>Until I met you<\/p>\n<p>But the longer we were together<\/p>\n<p>The harder it seemed to stay together<\/p>\n<p>Is forever just a lifetime of casually sharing moments together?<\/p>\n<p>I think forever should be the only way you envision your life with someone<\/p>\n<p>Every moment filled with love and compassion<\/p>\n<p>Even in the heaviest rainfall<\/p>\n<p>You can dance<\/p>\n<p>And be cleansed<\/p>\n<p>With a smile on your face<\/p>\n<p>Angels show themselves the most<\/p>\n<p>In the snow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the two rings that bind a couple together forever<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the love<\/p>\n<p>And the passion<\/p>\n<p>You never forget to water<\/p>\n<p>Because you never want it to die<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ve never been good about watering anything<\/p>\n<p>Unless it was absolutely necessary<\/p>\n<p>Or until it was far too late<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I never wanted a forever<\/p>\n<p>But I also never wanted a love that challenged me<\/p>\n<p>To actually feel loved<\/p>\n<p>Or seen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never legitimately considered forever Until I met you But the longer we were together The harder it seemed to stay together Is forever just a lifetime of casually sharing moments together? I think forever should be the only way you envision your life with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128600","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\/5309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130548,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128600\/revisions\/130548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}