{"id":36094,"date":"2017-08-05T16:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36094"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:46:38","slug":"36094","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/36094\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Two: Meet Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author&#8217;s Note: This poem is dedicated to my Darryl &amp; Diana series. In the origin story, Darryl is dead, and Diana is not. This is a poem describing Diana&#8217;s longing for Darryl. Her longing is strikingly similar to the longing I have for someone who I lost in real life, but since it&#8217;s hard to directly talk about, I&#8217;m using Diana&#8217;s point of view to indirectly talk about it. Her story has more hope than mine does. Enjoy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For every moment I breathe,<\/p>\n<p>I remember that you no longer do that.<\/p>\n<p>I remember that you are gone,<\/p>\n<p>out of my life forever it seems.<\/p>\n<p>So forever ago that meeting you feels like some distant fantasy,<\/p>\n<p>like some dream that I woke up from, never to experience again.<\/p>\n<p>And that makes it so hard so breathe every day.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that helps me to know that you were more than a distant fantasy<\/p>\n<p>is all the signs that your soul is still alive, still here somehow.<\/p>\n<p>They are small but still there,<\/p>\n<p>somehow, some way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll never know how it&#8217;s possible,<\/p>\n<p>but at least I&#8217;ll know that we shall meet again,<\/p>\n<p>long lost friend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s Note: This poem is dedicated to my Darryl &amp; Diana series. In the origin story, Darryl is dead, and Diana is not. This is a poem describing Diana&#8217;s longing for Darryl. Her longing is strikingly similar to the longing I have for someone who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2251,1907,454,504],"class_list":["post-36094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-wish","tag-dream","tag-longing","tag-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36094","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36094"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38702,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36094\/revisions\/38702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}