{"id":28670,"date":"2016-08-14T08:53:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T12:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=28670"},"modified":"2016-08-14T09:20:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T13:20:24","slug":"28670","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/28670\/","title":{"rendered":"The Way He Loves (Me)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You astound me<\/p>\n<p>To be speechless,<\/p>\n<p>While bearing witness of<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0brilliance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An understatement of your truth.<\/p>\n<p>How did God create you,<\/p>\n<p>Molded and shaped you, so perfectly<\/p>\n<p>Could it be, meant for me?<\/p>\n<p>Fingers laced, my heart raced<\/p>\n<p>When you pulled me in to kiss<\/p>\n<p>When did I become like this,<\/p>\n<p>Afraid t<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">o lose,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Addicted to bliss,<\/p>\n<p>Aways fighting, seeking to win?<\/p>\n<p>I never wanted to surrender again,<\/p>\n<p>But you did,<\/p>\n<p>When my heart, body and mind,<\/p>\n<p>Was yours to find,<\/p>\n<p>For keeps and to hold,<\/p>\n<p>Not control,<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t ever let go.<\/p>\n<p>As it unfolds,<\/p>\n<p>We may never know,<\/p>\n<p>Or understand how things come to be,<\/p>\n<p>As long as you stand by my side,<\/p>\n<p>I realize, in time<\/p>\n<p>We will learn that our love<\/p>\n<p>Was made to last for eternity.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You astound me To be speechless, While bearing witness of\u00a0brilliance, An understatement of your truth. How did God create you, Molded and shaped you, so perfectly Could it be, meant for me? Fingers laced, my heart raced When you pulled me in to kiss When&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":932,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,12,1136,5],"tags":[429,31,2090],"class_list":["post-28670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","category-marathon-poem","category-musings","category-official-marathon-prompts","category-poetry-prompts","tag-heart","tag-love","tag-soulmate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670","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\/932"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28920,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670\/revisions\/28920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}