{"id":394,"date":"2015-09-29T01:28:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=394"},"modified":"2015-09-01T02:28:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T01:28:54","slug":"left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been left behind.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s only by mistake<br \/>\nyou passed through the corridor<br \/>\nand shut the door.<br \/>\nYou did not see me.<br \/>\nI was not forgotten,<br \/>\nbut times change,<br \/>\nthe afternoon does not remember the morning.<br \/>\nThe woman in my dreams,<br \/>\nis not the girl behind the counter.<\/p>\n<p>Words sound different in the evening.<br \/>\nThe air itself changes.<br \/>\nThe evening is full of dark sun.<br \/>\nThe night is an oasis of the sky\u2019s ocean.<br \/>\nYou left,<br \/>\nbecause, no doubt,<br \/>\nthe day had changed.<br \/>\nLife had changed.<\/p>\n<p>I took a stroll<br \/>\nand forgot to tell you,<br \/>\nI was leaving.<br \/>\nJust for a moment,<br \/>\none small lifetime in a minute.<br \/>\nI captured fireflies in a cage<br \/>\nand wore out shoes.<br \/>\nI wanted to forget the moment before,<br \/>\nso the moment following<br \/>\nwas fresh as new bread,<br \/>\neverything new,<br \/>\neverything empty,<br \/>\nwanting to be filled.<\/p>\n<p>But you were gone when I returned.<br \/>\nThe house was empty.<br \/>\nThe door was shut,<br \/>\nand I lost your note somewhere,<br \/>\nlike a leaf flying away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been left behind. It\u2019s only by mistake you passed through the corridor and shut the door. You did not see me. I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=394\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Left Behind<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4246,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/4246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}