{"id":1108,"date":"2021-12-13T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2022-03-03T19:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:01:35","slug":"entwined-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2021\/12\/13\/entwined-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Entwined &#8211; Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/Entwined%20for%20Peter%20anniversary%204.m4a?_t=1639501825\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/our-tree-in-Humboldt-Sequoia-1024x678.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/our-tree-in-Humboldt-Sequoia-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/our-tree-in-Humboldt-Sequoia-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/our-tree-in-Humboldt-Sequoia-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/our-tree-in-Humboldt-Sequoia-1536x1017.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/our-tree-in-Humboldt-Sequoia-408x270.jpg 408w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/our-tree-in-Humboldt-Sequoia.jpg 1965w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Humboldt Redwood &#8211; Our Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 14px;line-height: 1.2\"><br>\u00a0<br>Entwined by Barbara Helvey Hughes, 12-13-2021<br>\u00a0<br>But, can you blame me?<br>These games we all played<br>these well-acted charades<br>should make it clear,<br>my dear, how fastly you<br>are bound around my heart.<br>But, if I start to<br>move away, to step this way<br>or that, do not be afraid<br>for I have made my choice<br>with you, I use my voice<br>with you and I, as well,<br>I have no fear, my Dear,<br>for I know how much<br>you Love me, too.\u00a0 I do.<br>\u00a0<br>And if our heartstrings<br>can strangle us, and if<br>our Love is not enough, then,<br>what a tangled web we weave<br>and, then, we shudder sorrow<br>beat our breast and grieve.<br>But every hurt and harm<br>we\u2019ve done, and please don\u2019t<br>tell me there were none,<br>weighs heavy as they slip<br>into the noose around our<br>Soul: convincing us we can\u2019t<br>be whole. And all those words,<br>and all that pain will block our<br>essences, the same as if we,<br>ourselves, had plunged the knife.<br>\u00a0<br>This life is brief<br>a murmured prayer<br>as if Love\u2019s thief<br>would linger there\u2026<br>\u00a0<br>The past four years have<br>gifted me such Love, as I<br>thought, could never be<br>but I was wrong and wrongly<br>believed we have but one chance<br>for happiness.\u00a0 The Universe<br>conspires with us, for all our<br>good, propelling us to<br>those who would be with us<br>and let us Be. Combined.<br>\u00a0<br>That, my Dear Peter, is my<br>Love and, yours, entwined.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}