If this world is
\nThe stage,
\nI am the actor.
\nI see the world as
\nOnly a ring,
\nA circus thing:
\nI am in the center.<\/p>\n
I am in the
\nBalancing
\nAct of Life.
\nI perform;
\nHope to return
\nTo what,
\nThough normal,
\nSeems beyond me.<\/p>\n
My Troupe:
\nEverything,
\nEveryone,
\nEverywhere.<\/p>\n
I am audience to
\nThe audience;
\nI perform
\nTo performers.<\/p>\n
I have toured
\nWith the troupe
\nAnd done many
\nShows through Time;
\nMany faces have I
\nWorn – through
\nMany eyes have
\nI seen and in
\nMany bodies
\nHave performed.<\/p>\n
Each show through
\nTime thus done
\nHas left me with
\nThe scars of my
\nPast:
\nThe body
\nNow mine;
\nThe mere haunting
\nOf past and
\nUnbalanced thoughts.
\nThis body, and
\nThoughts thus made,
\nI now must balance
\nIn the balancing
\nAct of life.
\nI must show to my
\nPerpetual audience,
\nAnd prove,
\nI have balanced
\nMy thoughts.<\/p>\n
Then, in the balanced act
\nOf the final death,
\nMy thoughts
\nAre all balanced,
\nAll One
\nIn Love.<\/p>\n
No more
\nShall I perform.
\nI shall have
\nProven to
\nMyself
\nWhat I know:
\nThat I am
\nEveryone,
\nEverything,
\nEverywhere;
\nFor I am my audience;
\nTo myself I perform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If this world is
The stage,
I am the actor.
I see the world as
Only a ring,
A circus thing:
I am in the center.<\/p>\n
I am in the
Balancing
Act of Life.
I perform;
Hope to return
To what,
Though normal,
Seems beyond me.<\/p>\n
My […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}