{"id":257,"date":"2019-07-12T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lydiaink.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2020-08-16T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T17:44:57","slug":"when-the-wrong-man-courts-and-he-is-a-temptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/12\/when-the-wrong-man-courts-and-he-is-a-temptation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Woos, The Man Who Dances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s walk the moon and outshine the stars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or rather, let\u2019s walk the stars and pocket every moon in the galaxy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> What do you mean, \u2018catastrophe\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I can pull you to me, my hips just above yours, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and push in until you bend beneath me, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">then we can spin to the music that begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Where we begin and never end, but you refuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing matters to you except safety!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will all the wooing in the world convince you to stay next to your fire at home?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There must be moments\u2013tiny brief moments between too-weary-to-read <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and too-restless-for-bed when you think of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Rainmakers are embezzlers of the soul, that\u2019s who they are, sorry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Now I\u2019m a different story.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I dance upon all the tiny ledges of the second story of your house <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and tip-toe past your window when the frost is thick and the moon full.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I do this to frighten you because I am frightening-come dance with me.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come dance with me upon the white frost lawn, in the shadows of the bare autumn trees.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let me sweep you upward to the tops of the branches that wouldn\u2019t keep a sparrow perched.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will stay aloft and dance upon the currents and eddies <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll hold you tight, your hips locked just beneath mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Stop the worries and stop the longing you have for the written word<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listen to my music, listen to the thrum, the beat, the hum, the heat of what makes me\u2013me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you won\u2019t\u2013you won\u2019t.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019ll smile at me through your window, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No matter how I dance or lift the music to your ears.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will pull the curtains tight against the whistle of high wind and forgotten summer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ll stay upon your window sill, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dressed in a midnight blue top hat and tails and thrill you in your sleep.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, I\u2019ll place my ice blue lips to the thin, thin pane of glass and thrill your dreams with <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What you resist and desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-lydia-ink\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/poetry\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In poetry there is a tight use of words that gives way to a conveyance of meaning that should always be a part of the words you relate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[4,50],"tags":[46,22,51],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-romance","tag-love","tag-poetry","tag-romance"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lydiaink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}