I loved you without word, or look or token,
\nYou satisfied a need in me,
\nI didn’t even know I’d need
\nA primal urge, instinctive and unspoken.
\nThen I, so unaware of this devotion,
\nWas given to your look-alike,
\nA hateful thing of bile and spite
\nAnd learned to loathe\u00a0your name once it was spoken<\/p>\n
Your stand-in was a feeble imitation
\nMy innocent, instinctive need
\nBecame a slave to social greed
\nDelighting to reveal my limitations
\nThree times the term of years we\u00a0were companions
\nWas I condemned to suffer there
\nAll in your name, my\u00a0thick despair
\nWas blamed on you,\u00a0with careless, gay abandon.<\/p>\n
At last, my prison term was deemed completed,
\nThe warden-puppet sent away
\nLeft me to find my lonely way
\nMy hatred for you now as deeply seated
\nAs once, in innocence, I used to need you.
\nI battled on in hate and fear
\nAnd loathed you deeper, every year
\nUntil I found the truth required to free you.<\/p>\n
The memories fade of tortures I endured;
\nAlthough committed in your name,
\nI now dismiss the worthless claim
\nAs slander of the worst ever procured
\nFor now I recognise this buried yearning
\nThe joy of rediscovery
\nAnd how the truth has set me free,
\nI hold you in my heart again, sweet Learning<\/p>\n
Prompt: A non-traditional love poem I loved you without word, or look or token, You satisfied a need in me, I didn’t even know I’d need A primal urge, instinctive and unspoken. Then I, so unaware of this devotion, Was given to your look-alike, A hateful thing of bile and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[1070,1072,706,1071],"class_list":["post-13620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-hour-22-unofficial","tag-regret","tag-truth","tag-twenty-second-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13774,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13620\/revisions\/13774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nForm: (Iambic meter, syllable count: 11\/8\/8\/11\/11\/8\/8\/11, rhymed abbacddc<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"