{"id":34019,"date":"2017-08-05T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=34019"},"modified":"2017-08-05T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T17:41:46","slug":"simple-breaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/simple-breaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Breaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was simple,<br \/>\nA breath,<br \/>\nAnd I slipped from now to then,<br \/>\nAnd I saw your face again,<br \/>\nAnd your face remotely yours,<br \/>\nAs we stood before the doors&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was simple,<br \/>\nA breath,<br \/>\nMy voice catching on the past,<br \/>\nMy voice catching on the pain,<br \/>\nAnd I saw your eyes again,<br \/>\nAnd the feeling grown, fondness at last.<\/p>\n<p>It was simple,<br \/>\nA breath,<br \/>\nTwo friends holding hands, at last,<br \/>\nTwo hearts still held from the past:<br \/>\nI found myself, now, kissing you,<br \/>\nKissed in ways I never knew.<\/p>\n<p>It was simple,<br \/>\nA breath,<br \/>\nAll the time, it would not cease,<br \/>\nTwo hearts yearning for release,<br \/>\nSeeking confirmation this was real,<br \/>\nTwo souls seeking love to heal.<\/p>\n<p>It was simple,<br \/>\nA breath,<br \/>\nAnd your arms around me stayed;<br \/>\nOn your chest, my fingers splayed&#8230;<br \/>\nMust it always go this way?<br \/>\nMust I await for days and days&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>It was simple,<br \/>\nA breath,<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to watch this death,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t want to bear another flight<br \/>\nWhen such simplicity feels right,<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t switch off this feeling like a light&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It was simple,<br \/>\nA breath,<br \/>\nA needed breath, no wasted time,<br \/>\nAnd I was yours and you were mine&#8230;<br \/>\nPlease give simplicity its due;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s only me and only you&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>It was simple,<br \/>\nA simple breath&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was simple, A breath, And I slipped from now to then, And I saw your face again, And your face remotely yours, As we stood before the doors&#8230; It was simple, A breath, My voice catching on the past, My voice catching on the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1098,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34019","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\/1098"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34417,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34019\/revisions\/34417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}