{"id":2184,"date":"2009-02-05T18:09:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T02:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2014-01-01T18:13:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T02:13:08","slug":"sweetened-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/05\/sweetened-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweetened Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be looking at the world<br \/>\nthrough a different set of eyes<br \/>\nand feeling things more intensely<br \/>\nlike I&#8217;m a little more alive.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be basking in the sunshine<br \/>\nas emerged from hibernation,<br \/>\ntouching the cool sweet earth<br \/>\nto re-acquaint with the sensations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll make up for all this lost time<br \/>\nand visit all my friends.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be hugs and tears all around<br \/>\nas I begin to make amends,<br \/>\nand catch up on what&#8217;s been going on<br \/>\nforced detachment now no longer,<br \/>\nso confirmed how wonderful friends are<br \/>\nand my friendships have grown stronger. <\/p>\n<p>Life&#8217;s sweetness will then seem to be<br \/>\njust a little bit more sweetened<br \/>\nand music&#8217;s musicality<br \/>\nwill be a little bit more heightened<br \/>\nOf the oceans, mountains, deserts, rivers<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be a little more appreciative<br \/>\nfor my time away from all of these<br \/>\nconfirmed what it means to live. <\/p>\n<p>But the sweetness of that freedom<br \/>\nwill come with challenges all its own.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll be returned to face problems that<br \/>\nin my extrication have been unknown.<br \/>\nLoose ends that will need tying up<br \/>\nto restart where I left off.<br \/>\nPieces waiting to be picked up ,<br \/>\nfor of life&#8217;s sweet moments there&#8217;s never enough<\/p>\n<p>So with trepidation and remorse<br \/>\nwill I take leave of this place,<br \/>\nand with excitement and the will to rise<br \/>\nto whatever I will face<br \/>\nThat happy moment coming soon<br \/>\nwherein I will be free,<br \/>\nto rejoin the world I&#8217;ve been plucked out of<br \/>\nto restart my life as me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be looking at the world<br \/> through a different set of eyes<br \/> and feeling things more intensely<br \/> like I&#8217;m a little more alive.<br \/> I&#8217;ll be basking in the sunshine<br \/> as emerged from hibernation,<br \/> touching the cool sweet earth<br \/> to re-acquaint with the sensations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll make up for all this lost time<br \/> and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","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=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}