{"id":650,"date":"2015-08-28T23:49:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T04:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=650"},"modified":"2015-08-28T23:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T04:50:09","slug":"1968-i-will-be-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2015\/08\/28\/1968-i-will-be-here\/","title":{"rendered":"1968 “I Will Be Here”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Worry in my heart grows in bounds as I hold you near,<\/span><\/p>\n

We watched over the city lights as I held you so dear,<\/span><\/p>\n

Keep me in your heart to remember and I will be here,<\/span><\/p>\n

With you in my heart maybe I can deal with war’s fear,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

I’ve learned that when with you I’m not good at goodbyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

My will is fading to hold back tears, I’m not one who cries,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hold my hand just a little longer while I look into your eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will be here once more I promise, I’m not one who lies,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For more than a year I’ve trained hard to make me strong,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart has told me for years, with you is where I belong,<\/span><\/p>\n

But if I ran from the draft like a dodger it would be wrong,<\/span><\/p>\n

My heart will cry out for you as I listen to every love song,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hold me in your heart as tight as you hold my hand tonight,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will keep you inside of me as I enter the hell of war’s fight,<\/span><\/p>\n

Hold my hand just a little longer before we kiss goodnight,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will be here I promise to again hold you in the moonlight,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Take one last look at me my angel I may not return the same,<\/span><\/p>\n

I pray you will love me if I should return home lucky but lame,<\/span><\/p>\n

The battle I must enter is not a local high school football game,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will return I promise, I will return to ask you to take my name,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Absorb the smell of tonight and every sound that you can hear,<\/span><\/p>\n

I’ll remember your essence my angel as I hold your photo near,<\/span><\/p>\n

Memories of the sounds or odors are a bridge to bring me here,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will be here when you need me, you see…..I love you my dear.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Patti, I love you.\u00a0 Written July 28, 1968<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worry in my heart grows in bounds as I hold you near, We watched over the city lights as I held you so dear, Keep me in your heart to remember and I will be here, With you in my heart maybe I can deal with war’s fear,   I’ve learned that when with you […]<\/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-650","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\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}