{"id":1634,"date":"2020-08-29T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T01:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2020-11-06T20:04:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T02:04:56","slug":"gods-gift-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2020\/08\/29\/gods-gift-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Gift of You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As thoughts find an avenue upon which to flow I seek rest,<\/p>\n<p>My heart calls upon your heart to ask was I ever the best,<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve fought wars with men so young they cried mama to die, <\/p>\n<p>Yet fear was never felt such as in wait for the last goodbye,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The cry of the banshee is what\u2019s heard from a \u201cdear John\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>More tragic than a bullets pierce is thoughts of moving on,<\/p>\n<p>As tear drops fall and sobs escape the voice with anguish,<\/p>\n<p>Men of strength will fall onto the floor in a state of languish,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I once followed the sad and weary path of he so described,<\/p>\n<p>Stricken with fear more intense than war I began to imbibe,<\/p>\n<p>The unknown creates tragedy more so than realities truth,<\/p>\n<p>Time falls upon the unaware to age him beyond his youth,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For you I cried, for you I almost died, then events occurred,<\/p>\n<p>Tortured, beaten, unable to stand my broken heart stirred,<\/p>\n<p>You delivered a kiss upon flesh hanging from my torn lip,<\/p>\n<p>No disgust came upon your face as he delivering the whip,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From above came a light far brighter than any I have seen,<\/p>\n<p>To be saved and delivered by a kiss from my future queen,<\/p>\n<p>Was a gift from heaven far greater than any gift in my life,<\/p>\n<p>Given by God, to save my life, delivered by my future wife.<\/p>\n<p>The end. For Patti by Pat<br \/>\nThank you Patti for praying for me during that time in my life. I\u2019ll love you forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As thoughts find an avenue upon which to flow I seek rest, My heart calls upon your heart to ask was I ever the best, I\u2019ve fought wars with men so young they cried mama to die, Yet fear was never felt such as in wait for the last goodbye, &nbsp; The cry of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}