{"id":3999,"date":"2017-03-23T12:40:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2017-03-23T12:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:40:40","slug":"beforeme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/2017\/03\/beforeme\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Naked Before Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A page from my book. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1530647134\">A Coffee Stained heart<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/2017\/03\/beforeme\/come-naked-poem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Come-Naked-Poem-166x250.jpg\" alt=\"Come Naked Poem\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Come-Naked-Poem-166x250.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Come-Naked-Poem-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Come-Naked-Poem-540x815.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Come-Naked-Poem.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe art was done with my regular morning coffee and ink.<br \/>\nThe poem title is &#8220;Come Naked Before Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>She would dress up for me,<br \/>\nfresh makeup and hair so smooth&#8230;<br \/>\nFor so very long she&#8217;d play the game<br \/>\nof trying to be pleasant.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I told her<br \/>\nthat she was prettiest in nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>She stripped down before me,<br \/>\nand kicked off her heels.<\/p>\n<p>Her body naked before me was something I adored,<br \/>\nbut what I had meant was so much more.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted her naked before me in body and soul.<br \/>\nHer everything raw and real without any pretending<br \/>\nso I could absorb her truth and make it mine.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Copyright 2016 Aarron Laidig \u2013 A Coffee Stained Heart<br \/>\nAvalable at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1530647134\">Amazon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/2017\/03\/beforeme\/come-naked-before-me-poem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aarron.com\/flow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Come-naked-before-me-poem-250x250.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt Image from poem\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A page from my book. 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