The telegram
\nby cricketjeff on November 28, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
\nOn her cheeks the sadness sparkled, though she hid it in a smile
\nAnd pretended to be happy he was hers for just a while.
\nThough a week is not a lifetime it was all they had to share
\nAnd tomorrow he was leaving for the fight in who knows where<\/p>\n
It had been a lovely wedding with his uniform well pressed
\nIn a borrowed flounce of beauty she had felt superbly dressed
\nAs her father held her stiffly and her mother almost cried
\nThey had promised one another they would love until they died<\/p>\n
Then a night and day of passion all she dreamed and now knew more
\nOn the bed, then on the table, in a chair and on the floor
\nJust the thought brought back her blushes and a tingle in her heart
\nFor their final night together they would practice this fine art<\/p>\n
Back to building tanks tomorrow, back to war and ordered life
\nFor a soldier all is duty but tonight they’re man and wife
\nHave they started reproducing are there children on the way
\nFor tonight it doesn’t matter those are words they cannot say<\/p>\n
It is six and he is leaving held her tight up to the last
\nThat’s the memory she’s holding though it’s buried in the past
\nIn the telegram they gave her there are words she hasn’t read
\nIs he coming home to kiss her, or in a foxhole, dead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The telegram by cricketjeff on November 28, 2009.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved On her cheeks the sadness sparkled, though she hid it in a smile And pretended to be happy he was hers for just a while. Though a week is not a lifetime it was all they had to share And tomorrow […]<\/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-4281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4281","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=4281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7227,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4281\/revisions\/7227"}],"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=4281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}