{"id":13776,"date":"2021-11-03T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=13776"},"modified":"2021-11-03T11:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:23:53","slug":"a-return-and-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/11\/03\/a-return-and-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A Return And A Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello! It&#8217;s been a bit since I&#8217;ve had a blog posted. Sorry about that. Hit a really bad bit of writers block, but I think it&#8217;s cleared up now. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to have this be a long blog, in fact it could very well take the record for my shortest blog. Recently, I&#8217;ve learned the importance of finality, and moving on. It&#8217;s very important to not let things hold you back!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I figured I shouldn&#8217;t let this blog be unimportant in any way, so I&#8217;ll put a poem that I&#8217;ve written recently here. It&#8217;s called\u00a0<em>Monologue Of A Dying Dreamer<\/em>. I hope you enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve seen the births<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of uncountable stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the deaths of unfathomable gods.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Civilizations rise and fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fall to dust like the rest that came before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You say there is only one constant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You say there will always be death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If life is not constant then nobody dies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everything that has ended, all of it,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">had a beginning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life and death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Only two constants?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Life and death?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is that all there is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With life and with death &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With life and with death comes love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You say nothing matters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If nothing matters then you are my nothing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you\u2019re not important<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">then you\u2019re the most special of us all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You and I, we fade to dust<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">so we can live and love and feel and die<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and live and love another time<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ll see you again<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because love never dies.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! It&#8217;s been a bit since I&#8217;ve had a blog posted. Sorry about that. Hit a really bad bit of writers block, but I think it&#8217;s cleared up now. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to have this be a long blog, in fact it could very well take the record for my shortest blog. Recently, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2021\/11\/03\/a-return-and-a-poem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Return And A Poem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13851,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions\/13851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}