{"id":73,"date":"2004-07-27T23:46:03","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T03:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=73"},"modified":"2004-08-03T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2004-08-03T15:44:27","slug":"the-lady-who-lived-by-the-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"The Lady Who Lived by the Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\nOn the cold winter evenings when the day has washed away my restraint\r\nWhen the streets call and I have to answer\r\nWhen my mind's forgiveness is eased by the cool of the night\r\nI find myself walking by the house\r\nof the lady who lived by the lights.<\/pre>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<pre>I always remembered the way very well\r\nAs though I walked the patch every night in my dreams.\r\nI will always remember with whom I first walked that way\r\nAnd I was always reminded when I would catch\r\nthe shimmering puddles at my feet.\r\n\r\nWith the breeze blowing and the trees around me knowing\r\nI'd stare and remember in through a window - in at the light - \r\nWith my hope and my memories I'd remember and I would know\r\nthat the lady who lived there was one with the night.\r\n\r\nSure, she had a few relatives living in town\r\nAnd if you really wanted to know, you might be able\r\n  to find out who they were if you asked around.\r\nBut, she was someone who no one ever talked of aloud\r\nThough in their mind and privacy always did.\r\nEveryone had their own ideas and \"Facts\" about her\r\n  and where she was from;\r\nI had been hearing them all ever since I was a kid.\r\n\r\nThey said she nearly married once.\r\nSome say they could remember when she was the sparkle\r\n  in the eye of every man in town.\r\nBut this is where the story goes sour.\r\nIf her love left, died on the road\r\nOr their love just swallowed each other,\r\nNo one seems to agree\r\nand no one will probably ever know.\r\n\r\nAnd sometimes, when I stand out there late at night\r\nI know I should be getting home.\r\nI know that someone is waiting for me to call,\r\nBut my mind wants to stay\r\nAnd stand there, hearing the cats playing in the trees\r\n  and the street lights hum.\r\nI know for some reason, it's where I feel the least alone.\r\nSometimes, I wonder if I'll ever know what happened\r\n and sometimes, I dream of her.\r\n\r\n\"Until your love knows you, will forever be your end,\"\r\nShe once told me as I slept.\r\nBut just who she meant it for, the more I try to understand it,\r\n  the more I don't.\r\n\r\nAnd it leaves me, standing there,\r\nLooking up... where I see the lights;\r\nThe lights that are one with the night.\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the cold winter evenings when the day has washed away my restraint When the streets call and I have to answer When my mind&#8217;s forgiveness is eased by the cool of the night I find myself walking by the house of the lady who lived by the lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-stuffs","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}