{"id":259,"date":"2017-12-26T00:26:25","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/withmywords.com\/?p=259"},"modified":"2017-12-26T00:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T23:26:25","slug":"yearning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/26\/yearning\/","title":{"rendered":"YEARNING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reached out my hand to touch you, but it was all wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>A dream, or a twist of my imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Your smile and warm, soulful eyes beaconed me.<\/p>\n<p>I yearned to hold you, never letting go.<\/p>\n<p>When you were within my grasp, you slipped away.<\/p>\n<p>All I had left in my empty hands were mere wisps of smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Elusive, fleeting, billowing away.<\/p>\n<p>We met, and my heart was so full of my love for you.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we met, well almost met to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>You were within my reach.<\/p>\n<p>Within the warm embrace of my yearning arms and full breast.<\/p>\n<p>Our meeting was not to be.<\/p>\n<p>With barely a suckle, scarcely an embrace, it was time to part.<\/p>\n<p>We said goodbye before we declared our love for each other.<\/p>\n<p>I saw your love for me, and you felt my love for you.<\/p>\n<p>In that moment in time.<\/p>\n<p>Suspended between the beginning that never was and the end that was.<\/p>\n<p>In that fragile, yet precious instant in time, I knew you and loved you, my dear baby.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reached out my hand to touch you, but it was all wishful thinking. A dream, or a twist of my imagination. Your smile and warm, soulful eyes beaconed me. I yearned to hold you, never letting go. When you were within my grasp, you slipped away. All I had left in my empty hands &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/26\/yearning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YEARNING&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/withmywords.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}