{"id":138589,"date":"2023-09-02T23:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=138589"},"modified":"2023-09-02T23:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T03:13:16","slug":"hour-15-see-me-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/hour-15-see-me-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15- See Me, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I saw you standing there<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alone and wondering<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the concrete courtyard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Waiting to go into the garden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You looked so confused<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Waiting there<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So I decided to help you out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I drifted towards you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reaching out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I wanted to let you know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The garden was yours to enter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My hand touched your back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guiding and gentle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You reached back with your hand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And felt\u2026..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I watched sadly as you turned to look<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Your eyes could not find me<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No matter how hard I tried <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To get your attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alas, all I could do was walk at your side<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hoping that you would know I was there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A part of me feels you knew<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A part of me felt your wish to know.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>An inaudible sigh sends a nebulous breath<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whispering against your skin.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You slowly nod, a small smile on your face<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And make your way into the garden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I drift away into a corner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>To try again with someone else<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hoping they will see me.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw you standing there Alone and wondering In the concrete courtyard Waiting to go into the garden You looked so confused Waiting there So I decided to help you out I drifted towards you Reaching out I wanted to let you know The garden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138589","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\/976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138606,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138589\/revisions\/138606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}