{"id":459,"date":"1987-11-16T22:38:49","date_gmt":"1987-11-17T06:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=459"},"modified":"2011-05-21T23:58:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T06:58:37","slug":"truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/11\/16\/truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If there were but one thing I&#8217;d say unto you,<br \/>\nIt would be that all is not really true.<br \/>\nThough truth may lead you thus on your path,<br \/>\nPursuit of truth left such an aftermath<br \/>\nThat was not warranted, nor was it wanted.<\/p>\n<p>If this were the only thing I&#8217;d say unto you,<br \/>\nTurn deeper within to find what really is true.<br \/>\nTruth can&#8217;t be found in books or in words,<br \/>\nFor only within can real truth be heard,<br \/>\nFrom the voices of the selves of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>But should I take the &#8216;portunity to embellish my statement,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d tell you that within you&#8217;ll also find contentment.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll find all the love, you&#8217;ll also find life,<br \/>\nAnd a way to deal with the day to day strife<br \/>\nBy accepting, and holding, and being the truth.<\/p>\n<p>For truth, be it known to you and to me,<br \/>\nIs the only way through which one can be freed<br \/>\nFrom the tenure of life and the tenure of death,<br \/>\nAnd the need and necessity for spiritual growth,<br \/>\nThat is part of the freedom of being the truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there were but one thing I&#8217;d say unto you,<br \/> It would be that all is not really true.<br \/> Though truth may lead you thus on your path,<br \/> Pursuit of truth left such an aftermath<br \/> That was not warranted, nor was it wanted.<\/p>\n<p>If this were the only thing I&#8217;d say unto you,<br \/> Turn deeper [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-songs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","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=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}