{"id":660,"date":"2018-12-14T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/?p=660"},"modified":"2019-02-25T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T20:31:32","slug":"guest-poem-the-last-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/guest-poem-the-last-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Goodbye &#8211; Guest Poem by Todd Mikosh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both\"><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;There she goes,&#8221; I hear them say<br \/>\nAs she turns and walks away.<br \/>\nAnd I stood still there, frozen.<br \/>\nThe wall between us poison,<br \/>\nAs I watched her walk away.<br \/>\n&#8220;Let her go,&#8221; I hear them say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You cannot say goodbye.<br \/>\nShe will not want to hear.&#8221;<br \/>\nWill fear betray the lie?<br \/>\nIs truth held back by fear?<br \/>\nI ought to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The frolics where we used to play&#8211;<br \/>\nIn folly we were led astray.<br \/>\nWhen nervous laughter fades away,<br \/>\nAnd cozy comfort begs to stay!<br \/>\nWords like &#8220;Love&#8221; should not spread fear&#8211;<br \/>\nThe simple fact:&nbsp; I\/You are here!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I never said to her goodbye.<br \/>\nI could not say that last goodbye.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Poem Style &#8211; Rhyme \/ Poem Catagory &#8211; People<br \/>\nWritten by Todd Mikosh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There she goes,&#8221; I hear them say As she turns and walks away. And I stood still there, frozen. The wall between us poison, As I watched her walk away. &#8220;Let her go,&#8221; I hear them say. &nbsp; &#8220;You cannot say goodbye. She will not want to hear.&#8221; Will fear betray the lie? Is truth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10217940033071675_2067660953325404":"","twitter_62031022_62031022":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,42,5],"tags":[322],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest","category-people","category-rhyme-style","tag-guest-poem"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/files\/2019\/02\/guest-poetry.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKwh0-aE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}