{"id":26074,"date":"1980-12-21T18:08:27","date_gmt":"1980-12-21T18:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26074"},"modified":"2013-07-09T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T15:39:35","slug":"louise-stuart-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26074","title":{"rendered":"Louise Stuart &#8211; Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<a title=\"Bohemia Bouquet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=25494\"><em>Bohemian Bouquet<\/em><\/a>, published 1980 by The Bohemians.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Memories<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He lies upon his bed of pain,<\/p>\n<p>I know I\u2019ll never see again<\/p>\n<p>His gentle smile,<\/p>\n<p>Never feel again his gentle touch.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s leaving me \u2013<\/p>\n<p>This man I love so much<\/p>\n<p>I hold his hand,<\/p>\n<p>Say a silent prayer.<\/p>\n<p>I stroke his silver hair.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m sure he <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">knows<\/span> I\u2019m there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Never again I\u2019ll hear him say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou look lovely,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I feel I look a mess,<\/p>\n<p>Or when I least expect it \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like you in that dress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Often we laughed when I said<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts that were in<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">His <\/span>head!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I press his cold hand,<\/p>\n<p>Only to find<\/p>\n<p>He is no longer there;<\/p>\n<p>Just the empty shell<\/p>\n<p>Of this man I knew so well.<\/p>\n<p>Our lives were oft\u2019 a storm-tossed sea,<\/p>\n<p>But I loved him, and he loved me.<\/p>\n<p>I walk away, through blinding tears,<\/p>\n<p>Remembering the happy years.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m as the day without the light,<\/p>\n<p>The moon without the Night.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Louise Stuart<\/p>\n<p>(February, 1980)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Bohemian Bouquet, published 1980 by The Bohemians. Memories He lies upon his bed of pain, I know I\u2019ll never see again His gentle smile, Never feel again his gentle touch. He\u2019s leaving me \u2013 This man I love so&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/?p=26074\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[243,109],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27000,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26074\/revisions\/27000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohemiavillage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}