{"id":385,"date":"1987-07-13T18:00:20","date_gmt":"1987-07-14T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2011-05-22T00:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T07:02:32","slug":"compelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/07\/13\/compelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Compelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why so compelled to continue in this life?<br \/>\nWhat mundane attachments have been made<br \/>\nTo impermanence and imperfection?<\/p>\n<p>What drives one on to live this life?<br \/>\nWhat drives one on to take this life?<\/p>\n<p>The same force drives one on to live<br \/>\nAs drives one on to die:<br \/>\nThe force of the thought. <\/p>\n<p>Thought creates the attachments,<br \/>\nThought creates the mundane and creates the<br \/>\nNeed for more thought.<\/p>\n<p>Thought creates more of what is needed<br \/>\nTo hold one back from one&#8217;s true Life.<\/p>\n<p>The more I think,<br \/>\nThe more compelled I am to think.<\/p>\n<p>When thinking in images of this earthly<br \/>\nExistance this existance must take hold<br \/>\nMust reign all thought.<\/p>\n<p>When thinking I am compelled to live<br \/>\nThis life or to take this life,<br \/>\nBut never can this thinking free me from<br \/>\nThis life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why so compelled to continue in this life?<br \/> What mundane attachments have been made<br \/> To impermanence and imperfection?<\/p>\n<p>What drives one on to live this life?<br \/> What drives one on to take this life?<\/p>\n<p>The same force drives one on to live<br \/> As drives one on to die:<br \/> The force of the thought. <\/p>\n<p>Thought [&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","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=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}