{"id":36315,"date":"2017-08-05T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=36315"},"modified":"2017-08-15T23:14:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T03:14:46","slug":"love-at-first-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/love-at-first-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Love at First &#8220;Light&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not become real until I spoke to your mother.<\/p>\n<p>I was a dream, a wish, a hope, a\u00a0thought in your mind&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<p>When your mother spoke to me she gave me life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When you met my parents and my cousin months ago,<\/p>\n<p>in October and January,<\/p>\n<p>I was sure they were\u00a0who you fell in love with, oh not me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was only a girl on the go.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew I would pass your way, and you would turn around.<\/p>\n<p>Reawakening my love of &#8220;Big Head Todd and the Monsters&#8221;, Japan, old school R&amp;B, and Phil Collins&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You a mirror to my heart.<\/p>\n<p>How did you know Al B. Sure was my music video Doppelg\u00e4nger, or that I liked the rhymes of Slick Rick?<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago you saw me with my family and saw the &#8220;queen bee&#8221; next to her &#8220;baby bee&#8221;; yes, we are all beach babies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Smiling, you witnessed my &#8220;light&#8221;, this I never knew.<\/p>\n<p>How you saw a &#8220;light&#8221; that you could love, I can barely comprehend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Love at first light&#8221;, who knew you would become my friend?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Who knew you would love the ocean as much as me?<\/p>\n<p>You parked the break, as did I.<\/p>\n<p>You left the cupboard ajar, as did I.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You love to love as much as I.<\/p>\n<p>No hug was too much, or too spur of the moment,even to play music before bed?<\/p>\n<p>The coincidences, too many to name.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Are we one in the same?<\/p>\n<p>Can you be my twin flame?<\/p>\n<p>The stars align us in the sky.<\/p>\n<p>They brought us together as miracles go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You are a shooting star come true, a prayer, a wish that was dreamt long ago.<\/p>\n<p>One I cannot say that I put into the universe all by myself.<\/p>\n<p>Was it you who wished for that dream-girl long ago, or was it a mother&#8217;s prayer answered?<\/p>\n<p>Your&#8217;s or mine, I cannot predict the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is more than true&#8230; the &#8221; light&#8221; you see in me is the &#8221; light&#8221; I feel from you.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling happy for no reason&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have every reason to be happy and it&#8217;s all because of you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All rights reserved copyright(c)2017 Natasha Vanover<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not become real until I spoke to your mother. I was a dream, a wish, a hope, a\u00a0thought in your mind&#8217;s eye. When your mother spoke to me she gave me life. &nbsp; When you met my parents and my cousin months ago,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36315","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\/785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36315"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44538,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36315\/revisions\/44538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}