My life matters.<\/p>\n
I am not concerned about life after death,<\/p>\n
but filling life before death with life, real life, \u00a0life abundant tamped down and overflowing,<\/p>\n
Life so sweet it makes my blood sing like a child at play.<\/p>\n
Your life matters.<\/p>\n
Make it matter to yourself for yourself, you are the one you answer to.<\/p>\n
That life matters.<\/p>\n
That person, that tree, that gorilla in the zoo,<\/p>\n
each is a rare and endangered species worth preserving, in need of honor and preservation.<\/p>\n
Of course Black Lives Matter, as do the brown, the crazed, the homeless, the gay, the random dude on random drugs, all of whom are marginalized into nothingness without a conscious effort.<\/p>\n
Why should you be so fragile that it troubles you that people think it needs to be said.<\/p>\n
My life matters, to your and me and they.<\/p>\n
Your life matters, to me and you and they.<\/p>\n
Their lives matter, to they and you and me.<\/p>\n
If you have a problem, get over it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My life matters. I am not concerned about life after death, but filling life before death with life, real life, \u00a0life abundant tamped down and overflowing, Life so sweet it makes my blood sing like a child at play. Your life matters. Make it matter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25572,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25509\/revisions\/25572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}