{"id":2580,"date":"2021-03-24T17:39:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theinvolvement.wordpress.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2021-03-24T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:39:03","slug":"the-close-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/2021\/03\/24\/the-close-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CLOSE STRANGER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Daniel Nyaga<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(<a href=\"mailto:danielnyaga.dn@gmail.com\">danielnyaga.dn@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thumbnail Photo Courtesy of aa.com.tr<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There she stood\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Short midnight-black hair, sassy but a beautiful smile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;She had saccharine sweet lips which were lilac soft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Her skin shined like a thousand splendid suns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;I admired in silent admiration afraid to utter a word\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I finally gathered the courage to speak but to my dismay,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was brutal with her words. Completely unreceptive and unwelcoming to strangers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was quite feisty If I may say\u2026 Though there was just something about her that fascinated me\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was it the puzzle of figuring her out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Or was I just another one of her victims?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our conversations were like an old, spiteful, English couple who would banter all day\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Constantly trying to figure her out. Toiling each day to understand what goes on in her mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had built up walls that were hard to scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Each time I would be close to reaching the top, she would increase the feet and I would be left with the insurmountable task of getting to the other side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was she worth it? Why did she have some unexplainable power over me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was my brain disconnected from my body and my heart the base of all logic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Days went by and our conversations became less awkward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would spend hours in her presence without saying a word, though it would bring happiness that couldn\u2019t be explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;She made me happy by just being there\u2026 We didn\u2019t have to open our mouths, the silence often spoke more than enough\u2026. It was beautiful!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time went by and all I could do was sit here waiting\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Waiting for you to notice that time is running out\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Depending on how you\u2019d wake up or what you\u2019d be feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each impulsive decision you made would constantly subject my heart to the constant throe of remorse\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I never stood a chance!! Unable to figure you out and understand you\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You would always change the lock to the door\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;I wish you didn\u2019t have to leave but the date is set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Leaving me with a smile that struggles to be more than a grin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve lost a piece and it\u2019s impossible to bring it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Inside I weep to conceal my pain\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;For how long? I don\u2019t know\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But In sadness I know that you will always be a close stranger!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daniel Nyaga (danielnyaga.dn@gmail.com) Thumbnail Photo Courtesy of aa.com.tr There she stood\u2026 Short midnight-black hair, sassy but a beautiful smile. &nbsp;She had saccharine sweet lips which were lilac soft. &nbsp;Her skin shined like a thousand splendid suns. &nbsp;I admired in silent admiration afraid to utter a word\u2026 I finally gathered the courage to speak but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invo.nyarango.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}