{"id":306,"date":"2010-05-18T19:34:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T19:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2018-01-21T03:27:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T03:27:54","slug":"i-stand-here-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/18\/i-stand-here-again\/","title":{"rendered":"I stand here again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I wrote a poem more than a year back called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/and-there-she-stood\/\" target=\"_blank\">And there she stood<\/a><\/strong> . I still feel it to be the best thing i ever wrote. So just tried to continue from there. Maybe this is as good, though i am not sure!<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I stand here again<br \/>\nBack to this place here, where<br \/>\nA few months ago she had stood<br \/>\nThe faint smile and half words<\/p>\n<p>My knees weaken, so does my soul<br \/>\nIf only i could return<br \/>\nTo that sweet moment in the past<br \/>\nAnd see that smile again<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow she was gone,<br \/>\nGone never to return<br \/>\nTo a place where life takes us all<br \/>\nBut none to bring back<\/p>\n<p>I missed that smile<br \/>\nThe sweet voice that glided<br \/>\nOut of the gentle lips<br \/>\nFloating on air<\/p>\n<p>I remember, how she blushed<br \/>\nThe moments etched in my memory<br \/>\nHow life had been beautiful again<br \/>\nEvery moment, a new life<\/p>\n<p>Short lived, is happiness<br \/>\nPerhaps its the will of nature<br \/>\nFor just when a new life began for me<br \/>\nHer&#8217;s was returned to God<\/p>\n<p>One day she was fine<br \/>\nThe next day she knew<br \/>\nThat these were but last<br \/>\nMoments, to last me a lifetime<\/p>\n<p>She had stayed in my arms<br \/>\nHer eyes red, but shining<br \/>\nFor she told me, this is not the end<br \/>\nWe will meet again<br \/>\nIf not in life, then death<\/p>\n<p>And there she had stood<br \/>\nAnd here she now lay<br \/>\nLoved, and at rest<br \/>\nA calm stillness around her<\/p>\n<p>And once again<br \/>\nI couldn&#8217;t help but remember<br \/>\nHow she had stood here<br \/>\nThe faint smile, and half words<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a poem more than a year back called And there she stood . I still feel it to be the best thing i ever wrote. So just tried to continue from there. Maybe this is as good, though i am not sure! I stand here again Back to this place here, where A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[6],"tags":[68,461,622,727,822,869,1119,1220,1259,1605,1726,1766,1787,1815,1888],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-and-there-she-stood","tag-death","tag-etched","tag-floating","tag-gone","tag-happiness","tag-lifetime","tag-memory","tag-moments","tag-return","tag-short-lived","tag-smile","tag-soul","tag-stand","tag-sweet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwbDR-4W","jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myrealmind.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}