{"id":23037,"date":"2016-08-13T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=23037"},"modified":"2016-08-13T21:55:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T01:55:42","slug":"poem-written-while-listening-to-latikas-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/poem-written-while-listening-to-latikas-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem written while listening to “Latika’s Theme”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This love we have is<\/p>\n

Beautiful, warm, inviting, solid.<\/p>\n

We’ve been through so much, you and I<\/p>\n

We’ve journeyed to<\/p>\n

Be together. You’ve been<\/p>\n

My rock when I needed it the most<\/p>\n

I lay my head on your chest<\/p>\n

And listen to your heartbeat.<\/p>\n

This is home. You are home for me.<\/p>\n

You’ve protected me<\/p>\n

From dangers seen and unseen<\/p>\n

You’ve sheltered my secrets.<\/p>\n

And safeguarded a love solely meant for you.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I lay my head on your chest.<\/p>\n

And listen to your heartbeat.<\/p>\n

I can rest easily, for I know that<\/p>\n

No matter how terrible and ugly and chaotic and destructive<\/p>\n

This world can be…you won’t break.<\/p>\n

My chest begins to hurt<\/p>\n

When I feel the love I have for you<\/p>\n

You’re like the shelter from the storm, I am safe.<\/p>\n

I feel light-hearted, worry-free, and genuinely at peace<\/p>\n

When we are together.<\/p>\n

Making love is not really what I think of, just the cuddle part<\/p>\n

For I know that if we grow old together,<\/p>\n

And you cannot get it up anymore and I can no longer get wet<\/p>\n

Cuddling is all that we will do…<\/p>\n

For this love we have is unconditional, suspended in time, and a breath of fresh air<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

It is the rest after a long day, it is a drink of water in the hot sun<\/p>\n

It is a peace amidst a world of chaos…<\/p>\n

It is a gentle shelter I call Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This love we have is Beautiful, warm, inviting, solid. We’ve been through so much, you and I We’ve journeyed to Be together. You’ve been My rock when I needed it the most I lay my head on your chest And listen to your heartbeat. This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23037","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\/761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23139,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23037\/revisions\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}