{"id":3996,"date":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=3996"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:45","slug":"the-extra-bit-of-magic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-extra-bit-of-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"The extra bit of magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The extra bit of magic<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on July 12, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nEvery breath of life was wasted in the years before we met<br \/>\nBut I can&#8217;t spend precious moments in a deep sea of regret<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;ve gazed for just one second into two such perfect eyes<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be lost for all existence in their look of sweet surprise<\/p>\n<p>It will never make a difference if you choose another life<br \/>\nIn my mind you&#8217;ll be my goddess even if you&#8217;re not my wife<br \/>\nI would wait a thousand lifetimes to spend moments at your side<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;ll still remain as faithful if my passions are denied<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t want to own the farmland where you planted all your crops<br \/>\nAnd I won&#8217;t close down the station where your last train always stops<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t act in any manner that brings any pain your way<br \/>\nBut I can be ready waiting if you want me any day<\/p>\n<p>From the first time that you kissed me I was cast adrift at sea<br \/>\nIn a warm and friendly ocean and I hope you&#8217;ll rescue me<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re rising ninety seven and you think life&#8217;s passed you by<br \/>\nYou will still be twice as pretty as the sunrise in my eye<\/p>\n<p>In the loneliest of moments I know I am not alone<br \/>\nWhen there&#8217;s nobody to touch me I am still inside your zone<br \/>\nSo you may as well accept it I am yours forevermore<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re the extra bit of magic that makes life worth fighting for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extra bit of magic by cricketjeff on July 12, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved Every breath of life was wasted in the years before we met But I can&#8217;t spend precious moments in a deep sea of regret Now I&#8217;ve gazed for just one second into two such perfect eyes I&#8217;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3996","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3996","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=3996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7513,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3996\/revisions\/7513"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}