Dear Future Love,<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t believe I have finally met you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n You came into my life in a flash of ultraviolet light.<\/p>\n As fresh and as fine as I can imagine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You are kinder than I envisioned.<\/p>\n Smart and funny on the outside and deep on the inside.<\/p>\n Just how I like it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Your patience is grounding.<\/p>\n Yet, I know it may be growing thinner with me.<\/p>\n It is more than a gift that your interest never wanes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Two balls of energy that reinvigorate each other.<\/p>\n Your sense of humor is like a badge you wear for all to share.<\/p>\n It is as open and as inviting you make everyone feel.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You evoke\u00a0<\/span>a sense of home no matter where we go.<\/p>\n Your heart and your chest call me home to rest.<\/p>\n Even when I may not know the place.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You make everyone feel at home, not just me.<\/p>\n You came into my life out of the blue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If I I had not invited you in to help me move my books before the rain,<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if I would\u2019ve ever be the same.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On that rainy day,I found fresh fruit to share with you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n My shoulders were bare and my heart was open.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Unbeknownst to me, my heart was shifting too.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You changed everything I believed in about love.<\/p>\n I knew not how to \u201cthink\u201d, all I could do was \u201cfeel\u201d.<\/p>\n I felt your heart, and I was not ever the same.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You sing\u00a0<\/span>without regret.<\/p>\n Spit lyrics and their meanings without hesitation.<\/p>\n With or without music when I\u2019m near<\/p>\n I feel the rhythm of your vibe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You pull me close, showing me what it\u2019s like to be alive.<\/p>\n Every day and every night you bless me with more than a kiss.<\/p>\n We pray we cook, we dance, we play, and we continue to grow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m so grateful you are no longer just a dream.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All rights reserved copyright (c) 2019 Natasha Vanover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Future Love, I can\u2019t believe I have finally met you.\u00a0 You came into my life in a flash of ultraviolet light. As fresh and as fine as I can imagine.\u00a0 You are kinder than I envisioned. Smart and funny on the outside…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53168","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=53168"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57824,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53168\/revisions\/57824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}