{"id":2730,"date":"2012-06-21T14:37:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2730"},"modified":"2012-06-21T14:37:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T14:37:08","slug":"joseph-baruwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joseph-baruwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Baruwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0The Tracks of My Hands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What if I said<br \/>\nI knew from the beginning<br \/>\nThat to capture<br \/>\nA molecule of your fire<br \/>\nWithin a whisper<br \/>\nWould be my greatest triumph<br \/>\nAnd as I begin to release<br \/>\nThe fragments<br \/>\nOf the constellation<br \/>\nI was once told to hold tight<br \/>\nI leave behind<br \/>\nA trail of stardust<br \/>\nIn the hope<br \/>\nThat one day<br \/>\nYou may decide to find me<\/p>\n<p>What if I said<br \/>\nI knew<br \/>\nThat we<br \/>\nWere incompatible<br \/>\nAccording to astrology<br \/>\nWould you believe me If I told you<br \/>\nGod works in mysterious ways<br \/>\nAnd when he painted the dark skies above man<br \/>\nHe played connect a dot with the stars<br \/>\nAnd found the formula<br \/>\nFor a new kind of human DNA<br \/>\nAnd placed samples of that<br \/>\nIn the tracks of my hands<br \/>\nAnd when I first touched you<br \/>\nSomething happened<br \/>\nThat when I slept<br \/>\nHe dissected<br \/>\nAnd left me whole<br \/>\nAnd the first time you led beside me<br \/>\nI felt complete<\/p>\n<p>What if I said<br \/>\nHe told me<br \/>\nThat you<br \/>\nCould not be contained<br \/>\nAnd that the formula he created<br \/>\nBy combining the grains<br \/>\nOf my rib<br \/>\nWith the molecules of the sky\u2019s fire<br \/>\nWas his greatest triumph<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joseph Baruwa<\/strong> &#8220;I&#8217;m a 30 year old proud father from Preston Lancashire though recently moved to the south east (Kent) to be closer to my 3 year old son.\u00a0 A Building surveyor\/solar panel technician by day with a passion for words and in the last two years I have really been concentrating on writing and creative storytelling under the pen name <a href=\"http:\/\/fwdthinkingpoetry.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">fwdthinkingpoetry<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Tracks of My Hands What if I said I knew from the beginning That to capture A molecule of your fire Within a whisper Would be my greatest triumph And as I begin to release The fragments Of the constellation I was once told to hold tight I leave behind A trail of stardust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2730\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}