{"id":1492,"date":"2011-05-30T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/2011\/05\/30\/when-i-wanted-to-say-i-love-you\/"},"modified":"2011-05-30T18:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T18:29:00","slug":"when-i-wanted-to-say-i-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/2011\/05\/30\/when-i-wanted-to-say-i-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"When I wanted to Say “I Love You”"},"content":{"rendered":"
I was speechless<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
had no words<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
my breath went nill<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
my heartbeat was still<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

it all happened to me<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
when I went on my knee<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
to propose to my beloved<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
and to say I love you<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

When I went home<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
went under the holy dome<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
thought a lot for why<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
why was my tongue dry<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Thought a lot why<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
looked up at the sky <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
went on a round<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
to know why<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>

<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>
But there was a blind<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>
not the one that was kind<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>
I was all but clear<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>
to get pretty near<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I don’t know why it happened me<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>
when I was down my knee<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>
to express my love to thee<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>
to propose my to be<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>

<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was speechlesshad no wordsmy breath went nillmy heartbeat was still it all happened to mewhen I went on my kneeto propose to my belovedand to say I love you When I went homewent under the holy domethought a lot for whywhy was my tongue dry Thought a lot whylooked up at the sky went …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-english","entry entry-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanktrivedi.net\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}