{"id":1691,"date":"2014-08-23T12:33:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2014-08-23T12:33:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:33:56","slug":"2-kill-me-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/2-kill-me-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"#2 Kill me slowly."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1837\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1837\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/black-window-window-panes_wallpaperswa.com_84.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1837\" src=\"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/black-window-window-panes_wallpaperswa.com_84-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Kill me slowly\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/black-window-window-panes_wallpaperswa.com_84-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/black-window-window-panes_wallpaperswa.com_84.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kill me slowly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>1. To whom does your heart belong?<\/p>\n<p>If not to me; the rose, nor to the thorn?<\/p>\n<p>Into the wilderness, my dear,<\/p>\n<p>the solitude, in which it was born.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2. Past be done,<\/p>\n<p>long gone forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in this free air now,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve chosen for you.<\/p>\n<p>Oh my dear,<\/p>\n<p>you touched my heart.<\/p>\n<p>I am free with you,<\/p>\n<p>or so I thought?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. I saved you from storms,<\/p>\n<p>I healed you scars.<\/p>\n<p>I loved you when you were,<\/p>\n<p>nothing but a broken heart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true you saved me,<\/p>\n<p>and I owe you my life,<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes I still wonder,<\/p>\n<p>if I sucked you in my strife.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>4. It doesn&#8217;t matter to me,<\/p>\n<p>I only live for your smile.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s what it takes,<\/p>\n<p>I will walk with you in the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It might not to you,<\/p>\n<p>but you do matter to me.<\/p>\n<p>I will not let you deprive,<\/p>\n<p>yourself all the love you need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0 Oh leave me alone now,<\/p>\n<p>I got my answer.<\/p>\n<p>You just don&#8217;t love me,<\/p>\n<p>the way you loved her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oh my dear,<\/p>\n<p>I do love you.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t know if as a friend,<\/p>\n<p>or rebound from somebody I used to know.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. To whom does your heart belong? If not to me; the rose, nor to the thorn? Into the wilderness, my dear, the solitude, in which it was born. &nbsp; 2. Past be done, long gone forgotten. Breathe in this free air now, I&#8217;ve chosen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40,23,31,15,10,41],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-friendship","tag-life","tag-love","tag-poem","tag-poetry","tag-seekerohan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}