{"id":2493,"date":"2017-02-28T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2017-02-28T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T01:00:21","slug":"a-tough-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"A Tough Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A Tough Message<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s kind of late.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t mean to wake you.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I got something I\u2019ve gotta say.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Something for you to do.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Many times I\u2019ve tried to tell her.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

But, the words just came out wrong.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got to tell my mother that you\u2019re gone.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I knew you would understand.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You were always close to her.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t say that I should be the man.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t expect this to occur.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I just don\u2019t want to hurt her.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You can make her understand.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

On this point, I am sure.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Better from a woman than a man.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I would like to help all I can.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I just don\u2019t feel I can do it.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

My emotions are like sifting sand.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t yet worked through it.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I think of all I would have to tell her.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is so much for her to understand.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

And for me, most of it is a blur.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It is better from a woman than a man.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I know it\u2019s kind of late.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t mean to wake you.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got something I\u2019ve gotta say.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Something for you to do.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Many times I\u2019ve tried to tell her.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

But, the words just came out wrong.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got to tell my mother that you\u2019re gone.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

——————————R. W. Johnson—–(2017)<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A Tough Message I know it\u2019s kind of late. I didn\u2019t mean to wake you. I got something I\u2019ve gotta say. Something for you to do. Many times I\u2019ve tried to tell her. But, the words just came out wrong. You\u2019ve got to tell my mother that you\u2019re gone. \u00a0 I knew you would … Continue reading A Tough Message<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,29,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-bird-poetry","category-life-lessons","category-romance","category-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2494,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}