{"id":69634,"date":"2020-06-27T19:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=69634"},"modified":"2020-06-27T19:26:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T23:26:52","slug":"determined-brandy-goodman-poem-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/determined-brandy-goodman-poem-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Determined (Brandy Goodman Poem # 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><u>Determined (Brandy Goodman Poem # 11)<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What am I going to do?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You\u2019re so determined to move on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nothing seems to discourage you<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Not even watching your granddaughter grow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You just want it all to be over,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t understand why,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I just don\u2019t want to lose you yet,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You\u2019re still too young to die.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I know it\u2019s selfish of me<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I don\u2019t know what to do,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My world will likely shatter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Everyone knows that to be true.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>With all the pain you\u2019re going through<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I should be happy with your choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You\u2019d be in a much better place,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But I will miss your voice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will miss your hugs and kisses<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will miss your warm smile<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I will miss all your advice<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My hurt will last a while.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I want you to feel better,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I just don\u2019t want you to go.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have so much more to share,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A mother is something you never outgrow.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determined (Brandy Goodman Poem # 11) What am I going to do? You\u2019re so determined to move on. Nothing seems to discourage you Not even watching your granddaughter grow. You just want it all to be over, It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t understand why, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1364,"featured_media":62064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69634","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\/1364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70360,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69634\/revisions\/70360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}