There once was a time
\na long, not forever ago
\nwhen a girl told me a
\nsecret not shared with
\njust anyone but she and
\nI were a thing and she
\nwas the first, of a sort
\nand what she told me
\nshouldn\u2019t have made me
\ndo anything but draw her
\ncloser and yet it did just
\nthe opposite and I don\u2019t
\neven really know why it
\ndid that but maybe that
\nis where the problem was
\nbecause the \u2018it\u2019 that got
\nthe blame was a nothing
\nthat I should have been
\nconcerned about and as I
\nwas young and stupid in
\nsuch things maybe just
\nmaybe if I could go back
\nand see that the problem
\nwas me then just maybe
\nwhat she took as a firm no
\nwould\u2019ve been something
\nwith more substance than
\nnothing and I could have
\nand I should have just said
\n\u2018It\u2019s okay\u201d and maybe just
\nmaybe since I can\u2019t change
\nwhat was I can someday
\nfind her and tell her I know
\nit shouldn\u2019t have changed
\nanything but would it be
\njust me sharing my problem
\nat least giving her a chance
\nto return the cold shoulder
\nshe should have been able
\nto cry on or have both our
\nshoulders now atrophied?<\/p>\n
\u2013 Mark L. Lucker There once was a time a long, not forever ago when a girl told me a secret not shared with just anyone but she and I were a thing and she was the first, of a sort and what she told me shouldn\u2019t have made…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,441],"tags":[4628,4620,2112,1072,4629],"class_list":["post-99128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem","category-poetry-prompt-responses","tag-2021prompt15","tag-2021hour15","tag-looking-back","tag-regret","tag-saying-no"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99128","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\/694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99154,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99128\/revisions\/99154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a9 2021
\nhttp:\/\/lrd.to\/sxh9jntSbd <\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"