{"id":19483,"date":"2022-03-09T19:32:22","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T00:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=19483"},"modified":"2022-03-09T19:32:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T00:32:22","slug":"the-poetry-snapshot-last-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2022\/03\/09\/the-poetry-snapshot-last-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry Snapshot: Last Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last words were not perfect.<br \/>\nMy last glance was none at all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19485\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 317px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19485\" src=\"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_8470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_8470.jpg 640w, https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_8470-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Chennai, India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was trying to race time<br \/>\nfrom the second you stood up.<br \/>\nBut I could not ease my mind<br \/>\nto string together thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>How could I find words for all those moments?<br \/>\nFor all the emotions that echo everywhere I go.<\/p>\n<p>There are no perfect last words.<\/p>\n<p>But I think about what I would have said,<br \/>\nif there were.<\/p>\n<p>I would have comforted you<br \/>\nInstead of feel my hurt.<\/p>\n<p>I would have reminded you<br \/>\nsometimes our hands are clumsy.<br \/>\nWe drop fragile hearts<br \/>\nwe hoped to protect.<\/p>\n<p>But hearts that mend transcend<br \/>\nthe love it had before.<br \/>\nIt blooms in ways it&#8217;s never explored,<br \/>\nreaching the sky to touch the moon.<br \/>\nStitched together to make room<br \/>\nfor new things to adore.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate you<br \/>\nfor the care you show.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate you<br \/>\nfor letting me grow.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate you<br \/>\nmore than you know.<\/p>\n<p><em>I appreciate you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, my last words were perfectly true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last words were not perfect. My last glance was none at all. I was trying to race time from the second you stood up. But I could not ease my mind to string together thoughts. How could I find words for all those moments? For all the emotions that echo everywhere I go. There [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2205,"featured_media":13473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,15,1372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19490,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19483\/revisions\/19490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}