{"id":90737,"date":"2021-06-26T17:17:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90737"},"modified":"2023-09-02T12:18:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T16:18:54","slug":"unexpected-impulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/unexpected-impulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Impulse (2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late night conversation<br \/>\nSitting on your couch<br \/>\nNothing out of the ordinary<br \/>\nJust two friends<br \/>\nEnjoying each other&#8217;s company<\/p>\n<p>I looked at you and something<br \/>\nStirred inside of me<br \/>\nI took in your face<br \/>\nYour smile, your laugh<br \/>\nYour entire being<\/p>\n<p>You turned to me<br \/>\nYour dark eyes staring<br \/>\nWithout hesitation<br \/>\nWithout reservation<br \/>\nI pressed my lips to yours<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t move<br \/>\nDidn&#8217;t push away<br \/>\nHalf a second dragged<br \/>\nInto eternity<br \/>\nThe world was heaven<\/p>\n<p>As quickly as it happened<br \/>\nI came back to myself<br \/>\nI realized exactly<br \/>\nWhat I had done<br \/>\nAnd pulled away<\/p>\n<p>Another eternal second<br \/>\nAs I took in your face again<br \/>\nYour smile replaced by confusion<br \/>\nYour laugh now silent<br \/>\nYour whole body frozen<\/p>\n<p>My cheeks flush in embarrassment<br \/>\nI stammer out an apology<br \/>\nAs quickly as I&#8217;d kissed you<br \/>\nI was on my feet<br \/>\nAnd running away<\/p>\n<p>It was an impulse<br \/>\nA split second decision<br \/>\nI hadn&#8217;t planned it<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t even know<br \/>\nI wanted to do it<\/p>\n<p>A split second<br \/>\nAnd everything<br \/>\nHas changed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late night conversation Sitting on your couch Nothing out of the ordinary Just two friends Enjoying each other&#8217;s company I looked at you and something Stirred inside of me I took in your face Your smile, your laugh Your entire being You turned to me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1102,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4107],"class_list":["post-90737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","tag-thepoetrymarathon2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90737","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\/1102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129869,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90737\/revisions\/129869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}