{"id":218,"date":"1986-06-26T16:50:37","date_gmt":"1986-06-26T23:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:10:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:10:26","slug":"wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/06\/26\/wave\/","title":{"rendered":"Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the heat of the dancing atoms<br \/>\nA crested wave of delight<br \/>\nDoes overwhelm and overtake<br \/>\nAnd subdue me in this night.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a trough before the wave hits<br \/>\nThen up the face we go,<br \/>\nJust you and I together<br \/>\nAnd the bright atomic show.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever it is you&#8217;re wanting,<br \/>\nHere can it all be found,<br \/>\nAtop the crest of the wave of delight<br \/>\nWhere such ecstacy does abound.<\/p>\n<p>Now you know there are things I want too,<br \/>\nThings we both &#8211; we all can share.<br \/>\nThings of life to be forever found<br \/>\nIn the lives of the few who dare.<\/p>\n<p>I dare you to be happy,<br \/>\nTo find love in all you can.<br \/>\nLove&#8217;s to be found in everything<br \/>\nSo excuses you cannot have.<\/p>\n<p>I dare you to let go your fear<br \/>\nFear of happiness, love, and fear of fear<br \/>\nWhy not start living,<br \/>\nStart feeling the pride,<br \/>\nAnd pass on that feeling that you acquired<br \/>\nFrom the many whom before us have died.<\/p>\n<p>What fear have they who went before?<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re no longer afraid of where they are,<br \/>\nSo why should we fear our inevitable fate?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not the first to go<br \/>\nInto the beyond,<br \/>\nTo where you may no more need to know<br \/>\nFear &#8211; just love,<br \/>\nAnd happiness and bliss.<\/p>\n<p>So in practice now you should begin.<br \/>\nLet go your fear I say again,<br \/>\nRide the crested wave of love<br \/>\nAll the way to the heavens above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heat of the dancing atoms<br \/> A crested wave of delight<br \/> Does overwhelm and overtake<br \/> And subdue me in this night.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, a trough before the wave hits<br \/> Then up the face we go,<br \/> Just you and I together<br \/> And the bright atomic show.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever it is you&#8217;re wanting,<br \/> Here can [&#8230;]<\/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-218","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\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}