{"id":44,"date":"2025-08-14T09:24:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shill.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:45:19","slug":"words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/words\/","title":{"rendered":"Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large wp-duotone-unset-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" src=\"https:\/\/shill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220530_112721-1024x462.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220530_112721-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220530_112721-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220530_112721-768x346.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220530_112721-1536x692.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/shill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20220530_112721-2048x923.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Kiss<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I asked,<br>she smiled, we kissed.<br>I closed my eyes, in shyness,<br>when really I wanted to see,<br>deep into her soul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To feel what she was feeling,<br>was impossible, but so desired.<br>In that moment,<br>everything,<br>was still not enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Eyes<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Across the platform<br>I met her eye.<br>She paused, looked, lingered.<br>That second became elastic,<br>myriad questions, possibilities,<br>maybe,<br>maybe,<br>then she looked away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Held<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She held me,<br>really held me.<br>Wanted to, needed to.<br>A timeless, ageless, beautiful feeling;<br>baby, child, teen, man, old man.<br>Then I let go and slowly,<br>with tears, she knew I was gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Close<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We lay together,<br>I remember<br>how, in my arms<br>she felt, breathed,<br>drifted, then slept.<br><br>I lay awake,<br>and held her<br>until sleep took me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Loneliness<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alone I can be,<br>loneliness I can\u2019t bear.<br>I have been lonely; up close,<br>yet so alone.<br>Wanted, but in truth,<br>wanted gone.<br><br>There\u2019s no cure,<br>because it hurts, indelibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kiss I asked,she smiled, we kissed.I closed my eyes, in shyness,when really I wanted to see,deep into her soul. To feel what she was feeling,was impossible, but so desired.In that moment,everything,was still not enough. Eyes Across the platformI met her eye.She paused, looked, lingered.That second became elastic,myriad questions, possibilities,maybe,maybe,then she looked away. Held She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shill.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}