{"id":279,"date":"1986-12-14T12:47:00","date_gmt":"1986-12-14T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:08:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:08:42","slug":"eye-for-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1986\/12\/14\/eye-for-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye for Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in Death&#8217;s dark womb,<br \/>\nAnd I have seen in Death&#8217;s bright tomb,<br \/>\nThings of life we all demand<br \/>\nAnd clutch and grab from the hand of man<br \/>\nTo feed an earthbound misery<br \/>\nWith the suffering that is bound to be:<br \/>\nBound eternally to squander<br \/>\nThe hopes and fears of the ones who wander<br \/>\nOver this crust of this dark earth<br \/>\nFrom the time of Death, until Rebirth. <\/p>\n<p>What in life did not appear<br \/>\nAs realized hopes or quandary fears,<br \/>\nDoes beyond release the tenure<br \/>\nIt has on man&#8217;s inhibitive sensure<br \/>\nAnd a freedom to experience pain<br \/>\nBecomes man&#8217;s option once again.<br \/>\nSo pitted in his earthly plight<br \/>\nIn Death or Life man still must fight<br \/>\nTo break away chains of desire<br \/>\nThat have man fettered in this hell&#8217;s fire. <\/p>\n<p>What in Death there does not seem<br \/>\nAs recollected from recurring dreams:<br \/>\nVisions of bodily termination<br \/>\nAnd spirit cast unto damnation.<br \/>\nDamned again to relive lies<br \/>\nAnd pay back debts, eye for eye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in Death&#8217;s dark womb,<br \/> And I have seen in Death&#8217;s bright tomb,<br \/> Things of life we all demand<br \/> And clutch and grab from the hand of man<br \/> To feed an earthbound misery<br \/> With the suffering that is bound to be:<br \/> Bound eternally to squander<br \/> The hopes and fears of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-social","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","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=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}