Mortality brings us closer;
\nIt isn’t easy, living, being human,
\nBeing a part of the bigger scheme of things
\nthat we never get to know or fully understand
\nUntil that moment when our mortality rears
\nits ugly head
\nand lets us in on the secret
\nwe’ve forever waited to understand.<\/p>\n
I’ll miss her now,
\nnow she’s gone.
\nThe last remaining matriarch,
\nUntil the next takes her place.<\/p>\n
Family ties are hard to tear apart
\nHarder still to leave behind
\nThey can be pushed aside
\nThey can be left behind,
\nBut they can never be untied.<\/p>\n
Those ties are what bind us to the past.<\/p>\n
And what steers us into a future
\neither by example
\nor by denial.<\/p>\n
Do we want to follow in their footsteps? Or not?
\nThat choice is very real.<\/p>\n
And whether we choose to follow or not
\nhas no regard for the fact that ties of family are what bind us
\ninto this future,
\ninto this past,
\ninto the ever-present now that is spirit
\nthat is grace
\nthat is truth.<\/p>\n
I’ll miss her,
\nselfish though it is.<\/p>\n
But she is freed from the life I’d never want to live.<\/p>\n
But what can we do?
\nSay goodbye and move on….
\nand never forget the love that is the family tie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mortality brings us closer;
It isn’t easy, living, being human,
Being a part of the bigger scheme of things
that we never get to know or fully understand
Until that moment when our mortality rears
its ugly head
and lets us in on the secret
we’ve forever waited to understand.<\/p>\n
I’ll miss her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-personal","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}