{"id":40125,"date":"2017-08-06T00:29:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=40125"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T04:29:45","slug":"hour-15-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/hour-15-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Higher than being and yet still sober<\/p>\n<p>Complete peace in the face of insanity<\/p>\n<p>A living dichotomy<\/p>\n<p>Wrapped inside the mystery of a double edged sword<\/p>\n<p>Who holds the keys to darkness if they are holding the keys<\/p>\n<p>The keys, holding them, and a sense of neutrality has them seized<\/p>\n<p>No, death and death are not capable of owning each other<\/p>\n<p>And believing in myself to rise above myself<\/p>\n<p>Is a logic puzzle of a whole other<\/p>\n<p>Please. \u00a0As if I was truly capable of anything<\/p>\n<p>When since the day I was born I was breast-feeding<\/p>\n<p>Not even capable of choosing my own food<\/p>\n<p>Please. \u00a0Believe in myself. \u00a0Ridiculous<\/p>\n<p>Because it is the brains who are full of non self which achieve the most<\/p>\n<p>Nothing metaphysical just a practical arrangement of space<\/p>\n<p>Just as absence of feeling is the opposite of love<\/p>\n<p>Not paying attention to self is not self destruction<\/p>\n<p>Or a lack of self care<\/p>\n<p>There are those who rightfully choose<\/p>\n<p>To not, believe in themselves, but rather in the power of God<\/p>\n<p>And the weaknesses I have do not drum themselves up<\/p>\n<p>For they can&#8217;t, just as metaphors are never made in and out of themselves<\/p>\n<p>I make them to make the poetry make sense<\/p>\n<p>Obviously. But I don&#8217;t believe in myself. \u00a0No, I believe in Jesus- in God and know that is the only reason I can sing<\/p>\n<p>Sing 15 poems and jump into a marathon already running.<\/p>\n<p>Even evolutionists can recognize that evolutionary advances only adapted over time based on external conditions<\/p>\n<p>Survival of the fittest<\/p>\n<p>And yet when faced with the external conditions of eternity, human depravity, and the inadequacy of savings oneself &#8211; very rare to find a fit<\/p>\n<p>Humanity actually thinks it is surviving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higher than being and yet still sober Complete peace in the face of insanity A living dichotomy Wrapped inside the mystery of a double edged sword Who holds the keys to darkness if they are holding the keys The keys, holding them, and a sense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":934,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40125","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\/934"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40192,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40125\/revisions\/40192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}