{"id":95,"date":"2010-11-04T13:17:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T17:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2011-04-11T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T16:30:47","slug":"a-moment-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/our-poetry\/a-moment-a-lifetime","title":{"rendered":"A moment, a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A season of love, a moment of thrill<br \/>\nTime spent in a pause, no space to be still<br \/>\nRush, race, stop and go \u2013 all at will<br \/>\nEach day, a different moment, and a new drill.<\/p>\n<p>Walls rise, boundaries fall, lines fade and materialize<br \/>\nAgreement morphs to disagreement, minds agonize<br \/>\nLife lives, even as wills fail to organize<br \/>\nAll in a blink, even as individual souls apotheosize<\/p>\n<p>To be, to rest, the heart desires peace<br \/>\nBut desire, in flight, will not let motion cease<br \/>\nThe eternal struggle, that existence will not police<br \/>\nMan, thought, creation : body, not fleece.<\/p>\n<p>Goodbye, hello, greetings, I come in peace<br \/>\nBut wait, I am here for me, mine, my piece<br \/>\nMe peace is mine, as are all those trees<br \/>\nMy ego drives me, not the flight of geese.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, that was yesterday, today I am new<br \/>\nFresh, alive, ready to start again, anew<br \/>\nNo ego to squash, no promises to renew<br \/>\nA new light drives me, ready to break through!<\/p>\n<p>-Mani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A season of love, a moment of thrill Time spent in a pause, no space to be still Rush, race, stop and go \u2013 all at will Each day, a different moment, and a new drill. Walls rise, boundaries fall, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/our-poetry\/a-moment-a-lifetime\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-95","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akella.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}