{"id":135822,"date":"2023-09-02T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=135822"},"modified":"2023-09-02T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:35:08","slug":"what-is-love-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/what-is-love-29\/","title":{"rendered":"what is love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because of your aphasia,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I read your mind and speak for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I\u2019ve become your daddy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I am now your husband\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and your daddy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adjusting the shower\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it fluctuates\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From too cold to too hot,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wrapping your skinny body<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In bath towels, giving you a hug<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0to stop the shivering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brushing and drying your hair,\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We create a quiet\u00a0 bond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That cannot be calculated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I love you now, even more than before\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because you\u2019ve provided a sacred space<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Where I can serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As your flame diminishes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I volunteer to burn brighter,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And give myself to you with reckless abandon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; Because of your aphasia, I read your mind and speak for you. I\u2019ve become your daddy I am now your husband\u00a0 and your daddy: \u00a0 Adjusting the shower\u00a0 As it fluctuates\u00a0 From too cold to too hot, \u00a0 Wrapping your skinny body In&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135822","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\/5015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136954,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135822\/revisions\/136954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}