{"id":497,"date":"2013-06-30T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/?p=497"},"modified":"2013-06-30T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T15:37:37","slug":"15042012-in-memory-of-charlie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"15\/04\/2012 &#8211; In memory of Charlie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My hopes and visions<br \/>\nof our older selves<br \/>\nholding hands and walking side by side,<br \/>\ngentling into our coupled future,<br \/>\nwere brutally severed.<br \/>\nWe were suddenly cleaved apart<br \/>\nWhere once we cleaved so close.<\/p>\n<p>Can I really compare this loss,<br \/>\nas you suggest,<br \/>\nwith yours?<br \/>\nYour tender son of son,<br \/>\nso wonderfully wrought and loved<br \/>\nand bravely fought for life<br \/>\nstill short of one full year.<\/p>\n<p>Our common ground is loss.<br \/>\nYes, we grieve.  We ache and moan<br \/>\nFor what we knew was loan<br \/>\nBut yearn for what we had.<\/p>\n<p>We share emptiness.<br \/>\nOur tears are shed with memories<br \/>\nof joyfilled times<br \/>\nand yes, we knew<br \/>\nwe could not hold<br \/>\nlike photographic image<br \/>\nthe essence of those moments<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\nwe want them<br \/>\nback<br \/>\nagain.<\/p>\n<p>Comparison is futile.<br \/>\nMy pain is mine alone<br \/>\nand yours<br \/>\nyou alone must walk your steps<br \/>\nof grieving sorrows.<br \/>\nAnd tomorrow will unfailing dawn,<br \/>\nand just as I can smell the blossom now,<br \/>\nthree years gone,<br \/>\nmay fragrance fill your life again,<br \/>\ndear friend of my heart.<\/p>\n<p>Your son and you will live in hope.<br \/>\nAnd may you hold that space now so black and deep<br \/>\nin gentle hands<br \/>\nuntil your senses reawake<br \/>\nand numbness fades<br \/>\nand sweet magnolia bloom<br \/>\nwill make you smile again.<\/p>\n<p>With love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hopes and visions of our older selves holding hands and walking side by side, gentling into our coupled future, were brutally severed. We were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,28],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","tag-poetry","tag-prose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youngjo.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}