{"id":225,"date":"2023-03-13T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=225"},"modified":"2023-03-13T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T15:35:45","slug":"if-you-ever-leave-take-me-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"If you ever leave, take me with you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">As we are now falling, tears streaming down our faces.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">And with the feeling of your warm hands on this rainy night,<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">I allowed myself to remember for the last time your smile<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">that always looked so bright under the moonlight.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Here we are now, bodies sinking to our deaths,<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">And the ground waiting to steal our breaths.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">How much I regret not being able to gift you<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">The future you had so wished for us two.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">And in the embrace of the dying year, I found myself<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">driven by the fear that you may forever disappear.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Only then have I wished the hands that were now<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">holding me dearly had never belonged to you.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I sobbed over the graveyard of our past<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">And I cursed the world for tearing us apart.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Because I now had to carry the feelings you left behind.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">I now was only allowed to carry you on my mind.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For this be the only punishment I deserved<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we are now falling, tears streaming down our faces. And with the feeling of your warm hands on this rainy night, I allowed myself to remember for the last time your smile that always looked so bright under the moonlight.\u00a0 Here we are now, bodies sinking to our deaths, And the ground waiting to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/?p=225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you ever leave, take me with you&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[20,19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[37],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse","category-poetry"],"authors":[{"term_id":37,"user_id":24,"is_guest":0,"slug":"hiba-dami","display_name":"Hiba Dami","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2ee32edc947385765c3ed601d91589819d831931cf05258be78e615f35925274?s=96&d=mm&r=g","avatar_alt":"","avatar_decorative":"","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Dami","first_name":"Hiba","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}