{"id":21626,"date":"2016-08-13T15:14:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=21626"},"modified":"2016-08-13T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T22:49:19","slug":"21626","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/21626\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boy I Loved For A Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curly hair and an impish grin,<\/span><\/p>\n

Merry green eyes and a confident chin,<\/span><\/p>\n

When he winked at me I got butterflies,<\/span><\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t afraid to look into my eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

He told me he\u2019d buy me an ice cream cone,<\/span><\/p>\n

And then he said he\u2019d walk me home,<\/span><\/p>\n

Will you meet me here tomorrow? He asked.<\/span><\/p>\n

I told him I would and I thought this might last.<\/span><\/p>\n

The next day I came to the very same spot,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoping he\u2019d be in the place that he ought,<\/span><\/p>\n

But I waited and waited for nearly an hour,<\/span><\/p>\n

My beautiful dreams had begun to turn sour,<\/span><\/p>\n

I started to look for him everywhere <\/span><\/p>\n

Then slowly realized he wouldn\u2019t be there,<\/span><\/p>\n

My anger built up til I thought I would burst,<\/span><\/p>\n

He must have found some other girl first.<\/span><\/p>\n

A woman walked by with a tear on her cheek,<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked if I could help, but she couldn\u2019t speak,<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally she looked at me and wearily spoke,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy son is has been killed and I haven\u2019t much hope,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her son was the boy with the curly hair,<\/span><\/p>\n

The green eyes and wink that was too much to bear,<\/span><\/p>\n

He\u2019d been hit by a car on his way home that night,<\/span><\/p>\n

And there was nothing to do, no way to fight,<\/span><\/p>\n

Since that day I\u2019ve been thinking how tragic is life,<\/span><\/p>\n

Where a soul can so quickly leave this place of strife,<\/span><\/p>\n

I never really knew him, at least not for long,<\/span><\/p>\n

But I feel that a part of me is suddenly gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

His mother and I remain friends to the end<\/span><\/p>\n

The last twenty years we have started to mend.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve gained a sweet love, but I\u2019ll never forget,<\/span><\/p>\n

How that dear boy\u2019s eyes looked on the day we first met.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Curly hair and an impish grin, Merry green eyes and a confident chin, When he winked at me I got butterflies, He wasn\u2019t afraid to look into my eyes, He told me he\u2019d buy me an ice cream cone, And then he said he\u2019d walk…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626","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\/763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23749,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21626\/revisions\/23749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}