{"id":130369,"date":"2023-09-02T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=130369"},"modified":"2023-09-02T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T17:00:37","slug":"hour-4-wedding-vows-in-waiting-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-4-wedding-vows-in-waiting-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 4: Wedding Vows in Waiting Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is something about the wrinkles fitting together so well even though they rest on different hands\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I see him raise a finger to her chin despite his arm being more stone and stiff than bone and bicep these days\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is something about the reflex of it\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How many times does your mouth have to tell someone they are beautiful before they will believe the same from just your eyes?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I cannot tell yet if she needs him<\/span><\/p>\n

If she ever did\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And maybe that\u2019s the wonder of it<\/span><\/p>\n

The wanting so deeply of that which you never needed<\/span><\/p>\n

Simply desired\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Simply asked to the dance<\/span><\/p>\n

And kept wanting even after the needs became louder and more envious\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And maybe that\u2019s the wonder of it\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That he wanted her back just as much<\/span><\/p>\n

Enough to let his needs keep hers company\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I had been trying to decide if I was a lonely person\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

to figure out if death was scary only because I had been told so\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To decide if I wish to find out how brave I could be\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

with only my own bones to keep me company\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If I could ever discover love\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When for me, love is more like faith\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In that, I had never seen it with my own eyes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Only read myths of its strengths <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Asked to trust the children it had raised as prophets\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Until today in the hospital waiting room,<\/span><\/p>\n

And their security radiated across the carpet\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As she giggled at his words\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There is something about looking at someone and k<\/span>nowing <\/span><\/p>\n

you have built a miracle together.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is something about the wrinkles fitting together so well even though they rest on different hands\u00a0 I see him raise a finger to her chin despite his arm being more stone and stiff than bone and bicep these days\u00a0 There is something about the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130369","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\/5310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130476,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130369\/revisions\/130476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}