{"id":2422,"date":"2015-09-09T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T22:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2025-03-21T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T01:56:30","slug":"escapefromchoice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/09\/escapefromchoice\/","title":{"rendered":"Escape from Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life&#8217;s changes come<br \/>\nexpected or not<br \/>\nSometimes we&#8217;re prepared<br \/>\nSometimes we&#8217;re in a state of blissful ignorance<br \/>\nOr wistfully ignoring<br \/>\nthe inevitable path our actions have led us to.<\/p>\n<p>I fear not the coming end.<br \/>\nThe escape from complexity<br \/>\nto clarity<br \/>\nor nothingnesss<\/p>\n<p>Either is the greener grass on the other side<br \/>\nof this life<\/p>\n<p>Either is where I won&#8217;t object to going,<br \/>\nescaping the complexities<br \/>\nand pressures<br \/>\nof an unsustainable life<\/p>\n<p>or lifestyle<\/p>\n<p>And yet<br \/>\nI am reminded of the many<br \/>\nwhose complex situations only<br \/>\nbring out their fortitude<br \/>\nand valor<br \/>\ntheir perseverance and pride<\/p>\n<p>as they humbly seek the refuge of another country<\/p>\n<p>I too see refuge from another country<br \/>\nanother past<\/p>\n<p>and am trapped by that refuge.<\/p>\n<p>The complex, all or nothing<br \/>\noptions to escape this complexity<br \/>\nweigh too heavily<br \/>\non the heart and mind<\/p>\n<p>and make the escape from choice another choice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll not travel down that choice, but I will not fight it&#8217;s arrival.<\/p>\n<p>I am ready.<\/p>\n<p>Thankful.<\/p>\n<p>and sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life&#8217;s changes come<br \/> expected or not<br \/> Sometimes we&#8217;re prepared<br \/> Sometimes we&#8217;re in a state of blissful ignorance<br \/> Or wistfully ignoring<br \/> the inevitable path our actions have led us to.<\/p>\n<p>I fear not the coming end.<br \/> The escape from complexity<br \/> to clarity<br \/> or nothingnesss<\/p>\n<p>Either is the greener grass on the other side<br [...]\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-personal","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","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=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2519,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}