{"id":20315,"date":"2016-08-13T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=20315"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:18:58","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T17:18:58","slug":"when-grandpas-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/when-grandpas-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"When Grandpa’s Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

My time is not my own.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am on call from dusk till dawn.<\/span><\/p>\n

I feel like a circus jugglar,<\/span><\/p>\n

Trying to meet each of his needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Banker, Chauffeur, Housekeeper, Teacher,<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes. \u00a0I do it all. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But I will miss Grandpa when he\u2019s gone. <\/span><\/p>\n

No more Saturday fishing trips.<\/span><\/p>\n

Or Sunday mornnigs at the corner store.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was going to teach me to whittle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, he never had the time.<\/span><\/p>\n

I loved hearing all the family stories,<\/span><\/p>\n

Of times with Grandma and his cousins.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will miss Grandpa when her is gone. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Will he miss me? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to tell.<\/span><\/p>\n

I work to keep him clothed and fed.<\/span><\/p>\n

All the while he sits and stares,<\/span><\/p>\n

Out the large picture window,<\/span><\/p>\n

At the birds and tall trees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe, Grandpa will miss me when he\u2019s gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He is waiting patiently for a journey,<\/span><\/p>\n

In which I cannot travel along.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, I will miss Grandpa when he\u2019s gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

He has served his time here,<\/span><\/p>\n

With nothing more to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

He is going home to the Master.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will miss Grandpa when he\u2019s gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0   My time is not my own. I am on call from dusk till dawn. I feel like a circus jugglar, Trying to meet each of his needs. Banker, Chauffeur, Housekeeper, Teacher, Yes. \u00a0I do it all. \u00a0   But I will miss Grandpa…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":921,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315","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\/921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20387,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20315\/revisions\/20387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}