{"id":155,"date":"1985-09-12T23:09:01","date_gmt":"1985-09-13T06:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:12:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:12:19","slug":"sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1985\/09\/12\/sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worshipped through the<br \/>\nLeagues of time<br \/>\nBy unworthy worshippers.<br \/>\nIn your name<br \/>\nMany came to<br \/>\nBow to you.<br \/>\nSpoilt thus,<br \/>\nYou are a star;<br \/>\nA source of life;<br \/>\nThe source of light<br \/>\nBy which we measure<br \/>\nThis thing called time.<br \/>\nBut spoilt thus,<br \/>\nMerely star you are;<br \/>\nNot alone in galaxies,<br \/>\nNever known for that<br \/>\nWhich your subjects<br \/>\nFail to see.<\/p>\n<p>Paternal Sun &#8211;<br \/>\nWorshipped one.<br \/>\nYour light brings life;<br \/>\nYour fire, death.<br \/>\nYou dry the earth<br \/>\nOf its life blood &#8211;<br \/>\nWater &#8211; which is<br \/>\nAs Light to Life &#8211;<br \/>\nA must.<\/p>\n<p>Why then this<br \/>\nContradiction?<br \/>\nShould a father<br \/>\nFeed one son in<br \/>\nPlentitude?<br \/>\nAnd dry the only<br \/>\nFood of another?<br \/>\nAnd pry the very<br \/>\nLife blood from<br \/>\nOne&#8217;s brother,<br \/>\nAnother of your sons?<\/p>\n<p>Of what plane are you?<br \/>\nThe earth plane<br \/>\n(Which you sustain)<br \/>\nHas no comprehension<br \/>\nFor you.<br \/>\nYou are a ball.<br \/>\nA worshipped ball,<br \/>\nOf fire,<br \/>\nOf light.<\/p>\n<p>And men still do<br \/>\nWhat they would &#8211;<br \/>\nThey go<br \/>\nAnd worship you.<br \/>\nSun God.<br \/>\nSpoilt God<br \/>\nOf man&#8217;s making.<br \/>\nYou shed<br \/>\nThe light for<br \/>\nEarth&#8217;s taking,<br \/>\nAnd hinder the very<br \/>\nSouls, so slow<br \/>\nIn awakening<br \/>\nTo the Truth of all.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re just a sunshine ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worshipped through the<br \/> Leagues of time<br \/> By unworthy worshippers.<br \/> In your name<br \/> Many came to<br \/> Bow to you.<br \/> Spoilt thus,<br \/> You are a star;<br \/> A source of life;<br \/> The source of light<br \/> By which we measure<br \/> This thing called time.<br \/> But spoilt thus,<br \/> Merely star you are;<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","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=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}