{"id":4275,"date":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4275"},"modified":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T22:56:38","slug":"rebuilding","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/r-poems\/rebuilding\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebuilding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Rebuilding<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 26, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;d left her as an eager boy<br \/>\nBut now his eyes were old<br \/>\nThe time has come to re-employ<br \/>\nThe gifts she thought were sold<\/p>\n<p>Long years without a tender touch<br \/>\nJust words to touch her heart<br \/>\nShe now sees eyes that saw so much<br \/>\nThey tear her soul apart<\/p>\n<p>But day by day and kiss by kiss<br \/>\nHe starts to understand<br \/>\nThat terror can&#8217;t stand up to bliss<br \/>\nBeneath a lover&#8217;s hand<\/p>\n<p>He daren&#8217;t look up as aircraft pass<br \/>\nAnd thunder makes him shake<br \/>\nHis confidence now made of glass<br \/>\nIs far too quick to break<\/p>\n<p>Old friends return, though far too few<br \/>\nTheir future seems assured<br \/>\nThe skills he lost are learnt anew<br \/>\nHis hurts are slowly cured<\/p>\n<p>As arm in arm and year by year<br \/>\nShe helps him find his feet<br \/>\nAnd when the end starts drawing near<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s once again complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebuilding by cricketjeff on November 26, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved He&#8217;d left her as an eager boy But now his eyes were old The time has come to re-employ The gifts she thought were sold Long years without a tender touch Just words to touch her heart She now sees eyes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9738,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4275","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=4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7233,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4275\/revisions\/7233"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}