{"id":220,"date":"2025-08-29T10:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?p=220"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T09:51:19","slug":"love-unfinished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Love Unfinished"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I am writing the second stanza<br>Which has somehow found its way to the beginning<br>We kept our promise<br>We have taken Mum and Dad home<br>And now the sat nav is taking us through the centre of Bradford<br>And right past the Alhambra Theatre<br>Where Dad took me to see Swan Lake<br>Many years ago<br>And the memory is coming out of my eyes<br>But I am so glad for this moment<br>Because grief is love unfinished<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The transfer bus to our hotel has taken us right past the apartment where Mum and Dad stayed more than 50 times<br>I am overcome by what I think is sadness and it\u2019s coming out of my eyes<br>But I soon realise that it is not sadness at all<br>It is grief<br>And grief is not sadness<br>Grief is love unfinished<br>I don\u2019t want to experience sadness<br>But I want grief to cover me sometimes because grief reminds me that<br>I loved<br>And was loved<br>And still love<br>I don\u2019t want to stop that<br>I won\u2019t resist it<br>Love unfinished<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c9f11fff-c179-4117-ab37-c68146d3a0bf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c9f11fff-c179-4117-ab37-c68146d3a0bf.jpg 480w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/c9f11fff-c179-4117-ab37-c68146d3a0bf-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wrote the first stanza last October. You can read it here <a href=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?p=32\">https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?p=32<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Today I am writing the second stanzaWhich has somehow found its way to the beginningWe kept our promiseWe have taken Mum and Dad homeAnd now the sat nav is taking us through the centre of BradfordAnd right past the Alhambra TheatreWhere Dad took me to see Swan LakeMany years agoAnd the memory is coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}