{"id":1568,"date":"2002-07-21T01:05:02","date_gmt":"2002-07-21T08:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2013-04-01T01:07:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T08:07:26","slug":"voices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2002\/07\/21\/voices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the friend this long afternoon<br \/>\nand meet again the struggling voice in my head,<br \/>\nthe stranger that appears to me only, as truth.<br \/>\nAn individual seeming apart from me, my hate, my love and I.<br \/>\nAn individual whose voice constantly pervades my thought,<br \/>\ninvades my head, groggy and bright,<br \/>\nexpanding within me out of control to where barriers cannot be<br \/>\nput up or extolled,<br \/>\nthe voice inside takes it&#8217;s toll.<\/p>\n<p>I meet a self-assured debt of pervasive thought.<br \/>\nThe meeting goes well; we negotiate, these thoughts and I.<br \/>\nMy consciousness like white waves forever reeling in<br \/>\ndoes meet the sand with almighty crashes.<br \/>\nThe negotiation goes on, I lose ground<br \/>\nto those pervasive thoughts that passed gently, now abrupty,<br \/>\nunstoppable,<br \/>\nwithin my head.<\/p>\n<p>And why the head? Are these thoughts in there?<br \/>\nI continue tasting myself,<br \/>\nthe rhythms are asking me to continue<br \/>\nto blame and collapse in gratitude for their untimely demise.<\/p>\n<p>This is not meditation; far from it.<br \/>\nAn outraged voice calls out of me, a point now passed<br \/>\nthe return to which I cannot see.<\/p>\n<p>Joy is gone, it ends what I am,<br \/>\nand points to what I will become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand the friend this long afternoon<br \/> and meet again the struggling voice in my head,<br \/> the stranger that appears to me only, as truth.<br \/> An individual seeming apart from me, my hate, my love and I.<br \/> An individual whose voice constantly pervades my thought,<br \/> invades my head, groggy and bright,<br \/> expanding within me [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}