{"id":694,"date":"2015-09-14T23:55:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T04:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?p=694"},"modified":"2015-09-14T23:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T04:55:09","slug":"the-price-ill-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/2015\/09\/14\/the-price-ill-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price I’ll Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your love has grown to entwine my flesh penetrating every space,<\/span><\/p>\n

Unknown to you I have allowed every pore to accept root in each place,<\/span><\/p>\n

If I’m a little slow be patient with me I’ve endured a lot in this frame,<\/span><\/p>\n

Touch me please it just takes a little bit to make me say your name,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Just a little bit of your love will bring a smile and make me glow,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s been so long that I’ve endured life’s pain I’ve become a bit slow,<\/span><\/p>\n

I will fly like a moth to the flame if you are anywhere within my smell,<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s a poem he recites for her, let’s ask him of her maybe he will tell,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The shuffle of his walk is bent and slow but deliberate in his walk,<\/span><\/p>\n

Just a little bit of you will bring him to his feet and he’ll even talk,<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the old man cry if you mention his wife whose gone away,<\/span><\/p>\n

The only road he is walking is the one way road to her one day,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

He lost the shine in his eyes long ago although he managed to survive,<\/span><\/p>\n

More than that is lost but he has found a way to pray and to stay alive,<\/span><\/p>\n

Too many teardrops on a flame will put it out but from love it will still smoke,<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the smoke ignite by saying the name of she he so fondly spoke,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“How’d you meet that girl old man?” His eyes will sparkle as if he’s there,<\/span><\/p>\n

He will tell you of a night long ago when he saw the girl with flowing hair,<\/span><\/p>\n

And he will cry for her as he tells you of the night he left her for the war,<\/span><\/p>\n

Did he tell you she was thirteen when love took him through heaven’s door,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“Hearts will never break,” he says, “when love is true, only separation breaks”,<\/span><\/p>\n

If he is feeling strong he will tell you the story of how much a real man takes,<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the enemy’s torturous ways or how he survived thinking of his future wife,<\/span><\/p>\n

“To be away from her is lifeless,” he says, “you may live but it’s not a real life,”<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“I’d endure anything to be with her and for sixty years I paid the price,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“For sixty five years I loved that little girl although in pain, I’d do it twice,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“For but a minute more I said, just give me a minute more of her touch,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“And now it’s true, I’m paying the dues for the minute I needed so much,”<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“As she slipped through my fingers I begged just one minute more,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was granted to be as angels escorted me and her to heaven’s door,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Then a minute later I woke free of pain but my heart was breaking in two,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“The dues I paid to be with her was the pain I endured but Angel I did it for you,”<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As he looks to heaven it’s easy to realize he is happy with his choice,<\/span><\/p>\n

How old are you old man, they say you’ve set records, then tears fill his voice,<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m the oldest man on this earth and I’ve set records beyond written time,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Minus a day one hundred eighty two,” he says as if it’s from a love rhyme,<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“A billion tears I’ve cried each day for her,” as if a verse from a love song,<\/span><\/p>\n

How long do you hope to live, sir? Why a billion tears if she’s dead so long?<\/span><\/p>\n

“Son, I know exactly how long I will live, you see, my angel died on my birthday,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was one hundred years minus a day that the Angels took my angel away,”<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“For that minute more I prayed for that day, I offered one hundred years to pray,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“And I have prayed, each day I have prayed prayers of thanks for that minute that day,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“Tomorrow is my birthday and I’ll pass away, it will be my turn to enter heaven’s door,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“For a hundred years I’ve given thanks for that minute, tomorrow I’ll see the one I adore.”<\/span><\/p>\n

The end, the price I’m willing to pay.\u00a0 For Patti.\u00a0 I love you baby.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your love has grown to entwine my flesh penetrating every space, Unknown to you I have allowed every pore to accept root in each place, If I’m a little slow be patient with me I’ve endured a lot in this frame, Touch me please it just takes a little bit to make me say your […]<\/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-694","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\/694","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=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}