{"id":2986,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2986"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:16:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:16:45","slug":"i-sit-and-wait-with-heavy-heart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/i-poems\/i-sit-and-wait-with-heavy-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"[ I sit and wait with heavy heart ]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ I sit and wait with heavy heart ]<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nI sit and wait with heavy heart<br \/>\nFor news from far away.<br \/>\nEach message flash I have to start<br \/>\nto see what&#8217;s there to say.<\/p>\n<p>The canker that has gripped her life<br \/>\nis holding far too strong,<br \/>\nHas she the strength for all the strife<br \/>\nthis fight goes on too long.<\/p>\n<p>No way will it hold me under\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\nI inhaled his warm breath.\u00a0<br \/>\nMy heart is a roar of thunder\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\nthat wont be put to death.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\nWorry not my precious lover\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\nthe grip is not too strong.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>\nYou know I shall recover<br \/>\nby your side I belong.<\/p>\n<p>Within a moment I see black<br \/>\nand fear has gripped my soul.<br \/>\nYet I hear your voice &#038; straight back<br \/>\nI fly with such control.<\/p>\n<p>Your the love that keeps me going<br \/>\nwhen darkness tightens grip.<br \/>\nThen without us even knowing<br \/>\nwe beat a painful trip.<\/p>\n<p> Author notes<br \/>\nThe first two stanzas were typed by me into a messenger window and read to<br \/>\nPassionPromise in a coma, when she came out of it it was to type the reply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ I sit and wait with heavy heart ] by cricketjeff on July 11, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved I sit and wait with heavy heart For news from far away. Each message flash I have to start to see what&#8217;s there to say. The canker that has gripped her life is holding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9718,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2986","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2986","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=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8522,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2986\/revisions\/8522"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}