{"id":2753,"date":"2014-08-24T06:17:17","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T10:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2014-08-24T07:06:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T11:06:45","slug":"the-battle-of-wills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/the-battle-of-wills\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle of wills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does one keep their identity<\/p>\n<p>In such a union?<\/p>\n<p>The struggle pf one person\u2019s needs over another\u2019s?<\/p>\n<p>A battle of wills? The war of the poor me\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Who will win?<\/p>\n<p>No one I\u2019m afraid<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is not what love is about?<\/p>\n<p>Love is selfless<\/p>\n<p>Your concerns are secondary,<\/p>\n<p>Your motivation being about the greater good<\/p>\n<p>The ability to make someone feel<\/p>\n<p>Better about themselves<\/p>\n<p>Just by time spent, listening, reassuring, bolstering<\/p>\n<p>Their wavering self esteem<\/p>\n<p>And the most important thing of all it is returned tenfold<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Love is the act of giving and receiving<\/p>\n<p>Without expectation<\/p>\n<p>Instead it becomes a point scoring exercise<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s had the greatest trouble, loss and<\/p>\n<p>sacrificed the most<\/p>\n<p>All in the name of love!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This type of love<\/p>\n<p>Which is not really love at all!<\/p>\n<p>It is a state of mind<\/p>\n<p>I truly do not need nor want<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does one keep their identity In such a union? The struggle pf one person\u2019s needs over another\u2019s? A battle of wills? The war of the poor me\u2019s Who will win? No one I\u2019m afraid &nbsp; This is not what love is about? Love is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","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\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}