{"id":782,"date":"1987-04-16T22:50:03","date_gmt":"1987-04-17T05:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=782"},"modified":"2011-08-14T22:50:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T05:50:50","slug":"change-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1987\/04\/16\/change-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change, sustenance of life;<br \/>\nPrecursor of death.<br \/>\nChange, an historic marvel<br \/>\nOf teaching and learning<br \/>\nAnd the way. <\/p>\n<p>In change there is stability.<br \/>\nIn stability constant change.<br \/>\nIn the fluxatious existence<br \/>\nThat is the universe<br \/>\nOnly change knows purity<br \/>\nAnd only change knows stability. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing can be as forever would seem.<br \/>\nFor only nothing can be forever, for<br \/>\nForever is a void of time &#8211;<br \/>\nDevoid of time, though encompassing all<br \/>\nThat time would encompass. <\/p>\n<p>Life changes to death changes to life.<br \/>\nIn change is stability and growth<br \/>\nFor life and growth are but forms<br \/>\nOf this marvel change. <\/p>\n<p>In a perfect world there is nothing.<br \/>\nFor only nothing as we know it is pure<br \/>\nAs we wish it. For in nothingness<br \/>\nEverything may exist, in purity.<br \/>\nIn purity everything may transcend the<br \/>\nMundane, transcend the remedial<br \/>\nFutility of the world. <\/p>\n<p>History has taught and teaches us<br \/>\nThat history continues in a flux<br \/>\nOf change. Change only in history<br \/>\nHas been stable. Both history past<br \/>\nAnd history future. Change only. <\/p>\n<p>So why fear death or life or change?<br \/>\nOnly change is pure, and only change<br \/>\nCan endure. Death is a part of history<br \/>\nPast, present and future. <\/p>\n<p>Death is a part of all time. All paths,<br \/>\nAll knowledge and all learning<br \/>\nAre encompassed in this death<br \/>\nEncompassing life.<br \/>\nSuch as this may be, only those<br \/>\nUnafraid will know,<br \/>\nAnd change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change, sustenance of life;<br \/> Precursor of death.<br \/> Change, an historic marvel<br \/> Of teaching and learning<br \/> And the way. <\/p>\n<p>In change there is stability.<br \/> In stability constant change.<br \/> In the fluxatious existence<br \/> That is the universe<br \/> Only change knows purity<br \/> And only change knows stability. <\/p>\n<p>Nothing can be as forever [&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introspection","category-metaphysical","category-poems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","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=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}