As soon as I could write <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember writing poems <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In little notebooks that were cute and shown <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would like the way they sound <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And the way they rhymed <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The way they looked <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Short and concise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that I always knew what to say <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because its just the way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They grew in my heart <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when I had hurt to express<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You best believe I could not write a better poem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had stopped for some reasons<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mostly due to pain and suffering <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What had happened, happened in this specific period <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But this story isn\u2019t about that <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this year of tragedy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That had been offered to my family <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And not just once, not just twice, but three times <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like a charm gone upside down and up side wrong <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two deaths that hit me hardest <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For reasons that do not resemble one another <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Little did I know <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The one death I could not remember <\/p>\n\n\n\n
would be the reason I\u2019d lose my grandmother <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To me, seemingly two decades to early <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She didn\u2019t want to die like her own mother <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My father would remind me not to judge his mother <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What I am to do but cry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I think back, I wish I had offered her a better goodbye <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps a poem about what it meant to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
to be the apple of her eye. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can never look at a fruit tree <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Without remembering the smell of summer <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the hill picking plums with her partner <\/p>\n\n\n\n
my father\u2019s father <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He reminds me to pick the ones just eaten <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the nature that surrounds us <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sweetest is what is on the tree, enjoyed by someone before us <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wish I could have written a poem about them <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I was too young to remember <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anything but what they both meant to me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Separately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was all that mattered. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As soon as I could write I remember writing poems In little notebooks that were cute and shown I would like the way they sound And the way they rhymed The way they looked Short and concise. And that I always knew what to say Because its just the way. They grew in my heart And when I had hurt to express You best believe I could not write a better poem. I had stopped for some reasons Mostly due to pain and suffering What had happened, happened in this specific period But this story isn\u2019t about that In this\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[]}},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jess","author_link":"https:\/\/jess.co\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jess.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}