{"id":231,"date":"1986-07-16T17:16:32","date_gmt":"1986-07-17T00:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:09:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:09:56","slug":"youth-in-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/07\/16\/youth-in-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth in Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why is to be young again<br \/>\nSuch a deeply held dream<br \/>\nFor so many of the people,<br \/>\nIn latter years of life?<\/p>\n<p>Why is to be youthful<br \/>\nSuch a consummate passion<br \/>\nIn their despondant time,<br \/>\nTheir age of regret?<\/p>\n<p>What regret should<br \/>\nThere be, that<br \/>\nLife must go on?<br \/>\nFor life must go on<br \/>\nTo be worth living.<\/p>\n<p>Eternal youth:<br \/>\nA narcissistic dream,<br \/>\nDefeats Life&#8217;s own purpose,<br \/>\nFor those for whom<br \/>\nLife does have purpose.<\/p>\n<p>But for the unwary,<br \/>\nUnwilling and ignorant man,<br \/>\nWith more time to pursue<br \/>\nHis youth chasing plans<br \/>\nThan he has to find<br \/>\nAny reason for age,<br \/>\nOr for life in itself;<br \/>\nSuch as Narcissus<br \/>\nHave no purpose<br \/>\nIn life;<br \/>\nNo purpose in age;<br \/>\nNothing beyond life;<\/p>\n<p>Nought beyond Death.<\/p>\n<p>He who is youthful<br \/>\nIn spirit<br \/>\nIs youthful as<br \/>\nHe should be,<br \/>\nFor a youthful spirit<br \/>\nIs a part of<br \/>\nThe wisdom of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is to be young again<br \/> Such a deeply held dream<br \/> For so many of the people,<br \/> In latter years of life?<\/p>\n<p>Why is to be youthful<br \/> Such a consummate passion<br \/> In their despondant time,<br \/> Their age of regret?<\/p>\n<p>What regret should<br \/> There be, that<br \/> Life must go on?<br \/> For life [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}