{"id":2467,"date":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2467"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:45:36","slug":"my-other-half","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/m-poems\/my-other-half\/","title":{"rendered":"My other half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> My other half<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on March 8, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI keep it here beside my heart, and in my eyes it never fades,<br \/>\nYour eyes shine out with love for me, in subtle photographic shades.<br \/>\nBetween love poems safely stored, where I can look at any time,<br \/>\nWhat more could any poet want than beauty in between the rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t much from all these years, to sit and hold and think of you<br \/>\nAnd yet, my love, it says so much and speaks of things we could not do.<br \/>\nOur lives have touched and still engage, I think of you on every day<br \/>\nAnd inside everything I do my love is wrapped in every way.<\/p>\n<p>You are not mine, I am not yours, each has their own appointed part.<br \/>\nEach gave away so long before the offering of unchained heart<br \/>\nAnd yet we met and something changed, I found I&#8217;d bought a part of you.<br \/>\nNow there&#8217;s a bit of wistfulness in every little thing I do.<\/p>\n<p>And when I give away my life, as everyone at last must do,<br \/>\nMy final thoughts I hope will be of filling all my mind with you.<br \/>\nTwo lives that touched and could not merge, two hearts complete, but cleft.<br \/>\nWe sit and hold and think as one, and never need to feel bereft.<\/p>\n<p>You never took away from me, your love just added to my whole.<br \/>\nMy life was better since I found another mind to touch my soul.<br \/>\nYou showed me how I could unlock, a deeper, softer, truer me,<br \/>\nWho stood erect and scanned the world for all the beauty he could see.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nJEff Green, that is to say cricketjeff and a photograph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My other half by cricketjeff on March 8, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I keep it here beside my heart, and in my eyes it never fades, Your eyes shine out with love for me, in subtle photographic shades. Between love poems safely stored, where I can look at any time, What more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9728,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2467","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9041,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2467\/revisions\/9041"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}