{"id":37,"date":"1984-02-03T11:27:19","date_gmt":"1984-02-03T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amigotico.com\/steve\/poetryblog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:18:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:18:15","slug":"the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1984\/02\/03\/the-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What tribulation is suffered<br \/>\nBy one who really knows<br \/>\nThat entities exist who really don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Creatures of and for this dimension only,<br \/>\nTime, space and patience unknown;<br \/>\nIgnoring all relation to another.<\/p>\n<p>I know my patience, time and space,<br \/>\nBut still must share this world<br \/>\nWith those whose ignorance shall reign.<\/p>\n<p>If they were One they&#8217;d be aware:<br \/>\nFutility redefined as pleasure.<br \/>\nStill I wonder why we left perfection.<\/p>\n<p>Becoming trapped within the three:<br \/>\nThree bars in the window to eternity;<br \/>\nBars unseen behind the curtain<br \/>\nOf fabric woven of fear &#8211; this material<br \/>\nCan be seen through after death,<br \/>\nBut because it&#8217;s material, a Spirit<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s ethereal cannot open it.<\/p>\n<p>I know what&#8217;s there.<br \/>\nI know what&#8217;s behind it.<br \/>\nDo I dare?<br \/>\nWill the Light be too strong?<br \/>\nDo I really know how to open it?<br \/>\nOr is it dust if I&#8217;m wrong?<br \/>\nStill dust: I&#8217;m not wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What tribulation is suffered<br \/> By one who really knows<br \/> That entities exist who really don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Creatures of and for this dimension only,<br \/> Time, space and patience unknown;<br \/> Ignoring all relation to another.<\/p>\n<p>I know my patience, time and space,<br \/> But still must share this world<br \/> With those whose ignorance shall reign.<\/p>\n<p>If they were [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}