{"id":2313,"date":"2009-04-06T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:10:36","slug":"another-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/another-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And so passes another day<br \/>\nthe routine ingrained<br \/>\nlike the predictability of ocean&#8217;s tides,<br \/>\nor repeated rising of resplendent sun.<br \/>\nI trudge wearily on and on. <\/p>\n<p>Have I forgotten how to strive?<br \/>\nLost the will to survive?<br \/>\nIn this existence tarry onward,<br \/>\nas an instinctive insect plying<br \/>\nI move and act without trying. <\/p>\n<p>Emotions now escape me<br \/>\nrepetition enslaves me;<br \/>\nmindlessness of doing what I must.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m now a cog in the machine<br \/>\na statistic in this scheme. <\/p>\n<p>With or without me in it,<br \/>\nthe world continues spinning<br \/>\nthis mechanism does its thing.<br \/>\nExpendable; I do not stop.<br \/>\nRedundant: living, this is not. <\/p>\n<p>And so passed another day<br \/>\nthe earth&#8217;s rotation stays unswayed<br \/>\nunstoppable;<br \/>\nthe endless days that confine,<br \/>\nto break this cycle, must I die?<\/p>\n<p>Or relinquish to the time?<br \/>\nfind to what I&#8217;d aspire,<br \/>\nonce again, strive. <\/p>\n<p>And so starts another day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And so passes another day<br \/> the routine ingrained<br \/> like the predictability of ocean&#8217;s tides,<br \/> or repeated rising of resplendent sun.<br \/> I trudge wearily on and on. <\/p>\n<p>Have I forgotten how to strive?<br \/> Lost the will to survive?<br \/> In this existence tarry onward,<br \/> as an instinctive insect plying<br \/> I move and act [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,3,13,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-nature","category-oceans","category-personal","category-poems","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313","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=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}