{"id":97983,"date":"2021-06-26T21:30:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=97983"},"modified":"2021-06-26T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T01:30:49","slug":"come-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/come-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Come To Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come to me is what they told me<br \/>\nMy crush my love my fate<br \/>\nHe wanted me<br \/>\nLet us meet is what they told me<br \/>\nMy young heart floundered<\/p>\n<p>I went to him<br \/>\nThey told me to come<br \/>\nHe wanted me<br \/>\nHe sat holding reign<br \/>\nIn the courtyard waiting<\/p>\n<p>Trembling legs bade me forward<br \/>\nPast columns of ivy riddled balustrades<br \/>\nHe wanted me<br \/>\nApproaching him as he stood<br \/>\nA young man\u2019s lithe athletic form<\/p>\n<p>A few feet more to go<br \/>\nI would go to him because<br \/>\nHe wanted me<br \/>\nHis laughter thundered in my brain<br \/>\nHis discipled parasites followed him<\/p>\n<p>Disembodied voice in my ear<br \/>\nPain too heavy to bear<br \/>\nHe wanted me<br \/>\nHis eyes wide as I stood there<br \/>\nIn his courtyard holding court<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by those who\u2019d jeered<br \/>\nTheir laughter silenced now<br \/>\nHe wanted me<br \/>\nThe gun lay heavy in my hand<br \/>\nWhere I lay beside him on the ground<br \/>\nI wanted him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come to me is what they told me My crush my love my fate He wanted me Let us meet is what they told me My young heart floundered I went to him They told me to come He wanted me He sat holding reign&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4587],"class_list":["post-97983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021-marathon-poem-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97983","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\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97996,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97983\/revisions\/97996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}