{"id":47178,"date":"2019-06-22T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=47178"},"modified":"2019-06-22T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T14:31:01","slug":"i-never-believed-in-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/i-never-believed-in-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"I Never Believed In Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 2<\/p>\n<p>I never believed in magic<br \/>\nUntil I saw the way your eyes danced<br \/>\nWhen he stood in front of you.<br \/>\nThen I almost believed,<br \/>\nFor what else<br \/>\nCould cause the mind to reel<br \/>\nAnd the heart to pound<br \/>\nAnd the lungs to break<br \/>\nThe way yours did<br \/>\nWhen you saw him?<br \/>\nPerhaps I did not believe in Magic,<br \/>\nBut I saw the spell he had cast upon you.<br \/>\nI never believed in Magic<br \/>\nUntil I saw the way<br \/>\nYour heart soared<br \/>\nAnd your tears fluttered away<br \/>\nWhen he said,<br \/>\n\u201cI love you.\u201d<br \/>\nThen I nearly believed.<br \/>\nFor what else<br \/>\nCould transform your very mind<br \/>\nLike this did?<br \/>\nI never believed in Magic<br \/>\nUntil the day he left you,<br \/>\nYour heart crushed between his fingertips,<br \/>\nYour eyes red with the pain of heartbreak.<br \/>\nHe looked at your pain and smiled,<br \/>\nAnd suddenly the spell was broken.<br \/>\nAnd I did not believe in Magic.<br \/>\nOnly pain.<br \/>\nI never believed in Magic<br \/>\nUntil those glowing green eyes<br \/>\nLooked into mine<br \/>\nAnd told me I was beautiful.<br \/>\nThen my heart soared<br \/>\nAnd my mind reeled<br \/>\nAnd the ground beneath me seemed to spin.<br \/>\nI never believed in Magic.<br \/>\nBut maybe<br \/>\nI did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poem 2 I never believed in magic Until I saw the way your eyes danced When he stood in front of you. Then I almost believed, For what else Could cause the mind to reel And the heart to pound And the lungs to break&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2176,2835,536],"class_list":["post-47178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-forprompt2","tag-prompt2hour2","tag-magic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47178","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\/1176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47297,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47178\/revisions\/47297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}