{"id":89799,"date":"2021-06-26T12:19:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=89799"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:36:38","slug":"how-do-i-bid-you-goodbye-surya-t-poetry-marathon-poem-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-do-i-bid-you-goodbye-surya-t-poetry-marathon-poem-4\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I bid you goodbye? | Surya T | Poetry Marathon Poem 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Book &#8211; The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them<br \/>\nWords aren&#8217;t enough, neither are gestures of grandeur<br \/>\nHow can you bid goodbye to them,<br \/>\nthose who you never want to leave?<\/p>\n<p>Would a word be enough to contain all the feelings<br \/>\nthey made you feel in a little span of time?<br \/>\nWould a word contain in itself the love<br \/>\nthey gave you in your life?<\/p>\n<p>Would a hug be long enough to keep them close?<br \/>\nJust to have the pleasure of being with them once more?<br \/>\nWould a hug be enough to plead them to stay?<br \/>\nJust to have another moment with them?<\/p>\n<p>Would a feast in their honor be grand enough?<br \/>\nFor someone who made you feel things you never felt before?<br \/>\nWould a song sing all those moments<br \/>\nWhen their mere presence was enough to keep going on?<\/p>\n<p>Would a poem express their awe-inspiring words?<br \/>\nWould a ballad be enough to show them their greatness?<br \/>\nWould a dance tell them their importance?<br \/>\nOr would they all just be incomplete?<\/p>\n<p>What shall I do, now that you have decided to leave?<br \/>\nIf it were up to me, I shall hold you close<br \/>\nO, What shall I do, now that you have to leave?<br \/>\nMy pleas won&#8217;t make you reconsider<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I must accept my fate<br \/>\nA life to be led without your presence in it<br \/>\nI must be strong at the moment of parting<br \/>\nMaybe your presence was the only thing holding me together<\/p>\n<p>No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them<br \/>\nWords aren&#8217;t enough, neither are gestures of grandeur<br \/>\nHow can you bid goodbye to them,<br \/>\nthose who you never want to leave?<\/p>\n<p><em>-Surya T<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book &#8211; The long goodbye by Raymond Chandler No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them Words aren&#8217;t enough, neither are gestures of grandeur How can you bid goodbye to them, those who you never want to leave? Would a word be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3791,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4262,4261,4120],"class_list":["post-89799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-how-do-i-bid-you-goodbye","tag-poetry-hour-4","tag-surya-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799","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\/3791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90325,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89799\/revisions\/90325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}