{"id":2126,"date":"2025-05-07T11:49:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/days-and-lives-grow-shorter\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T11:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T11:49:53","slug":"days-and-lives-grow-shorter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/days-and-lives-grow-shorter\/","title":{"rendered":"days and lives grow shorter"},"content":{"rendered":"

days and lives grow shorter
\ndeath comes nearer
\nmemories and achievements
\ngrow dimmer
\nas if they never happened
\npast loves
\nthe good ones
\nthe not so good ones
\nmostly forgotten
\nas if they never happened
\nthings that used to matter
\ndon\u2019t matter so much anymore
\nas the end draws nearer
\nand everything grows dimmer
\nand your life has melted away
\nand you wonder where it all went
\nbefore you close your eyes
\nand you are more alone
\nthan ever when you realize
\nyou are about to die<\/p>\n

bob boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

days and lives grow shorter death comes nearer memories and achievements grow dimmer as if they never happened past loves the good ones the not so good ones mostly forgotten as if they never happened things that used to matter don\u2019t matter so much anymore as the end draws nearer and everything grows dimmer and… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}