{"id":857,"date":"1988-02-01T00:06:49","date_gmt":"1988-02-01T08:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sm.amigotico.com\/poetryblog\/?p=857"},"modified":"2011-09-03T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T03:07:44","slug":"time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/1988\/02\/01\/time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the incomprehensibility in a moment,<br \/>\nIn the instant taken to try<br \/>\nTo comprehend the instant,<br \/>\nThe instant passes,<br \/>\nIs experienced, and is<br \/>\nTo our experience, gone.<\/p>\n<p>There is incomprehensibility in every<br \/>\nInstant,<br \/>\nFor we can only experience<br \/>\nBut not comprehend each instant:<br \/>\nWe cannot comprehend time.<\/p>\n<p>We may measure its passing &#8211;<br \/>\nPredict its motion, or<br \/>\nAnticipate its direction.<\/p>\n<p>But we measure our experience of its passing,<br \/>\nNot its passing.<br \/>\nWe predict our experience of its motion,<br \/>\nBut not its motion.<br \/>\nWe anticipate our experience of its direction,<br \/>\nBut not its direction.<\/p>\n<p>If time is measured by our experience,<br \/>\nAnd this experience is measured by time,<br \/>\nDoes this limit our being to the existence<br \/>\nOf time and our experience?<\/p>\n<p>In the instant of our passing,<br \/>\nOur own experience of this existence within this time<br \/>\nDoes cease,<br \/>\nBut time does not.<br \/>\nSince our own experience of this time does cease,<br \/>\nAnd time does not,<br \/>\nOur being must be beyond this time<br \/>\nAnd beyond this experience,<br \/>\nOr all must cease<br \/>\nWith the cessation of experience<br \/>\nOf any being.<\/p>\n<p>All will cease<br \/>\nWith the cessation of any being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the incomprehensibility in a moment,<br \/> In the instant taken to try<br \/> To comprehend the instant,<br \/> The instant passes,<br \/> Is experienced, and is<br \/> To our experience, gone.<\/p>\n<p>There is incomprehensibility in every<br \/> Instant,<br \/> For we can only experience<br \/> But not comprehend each instant:<br \/> We cannot comprehend time.<\/p>\n<p>We may measure its [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphysical","category-poems","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}