{"id":3044,"date":"2024-05-10T12:51:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3044"},"modified":"2024-05-10T12:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T19:55:38","slug":"awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/05\/10\/awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Awareness<\/strong><\/p>\n

She Awoke
\nin Darkness,
\nday after day,
\neven on
\nthe Brightest of Days.<\/p>\n

Feeling like
\nan amorphous
\nBlob,
\noverhearing Passersby
\ncommenting
\nto each Other
\nthat She
\nneeded to come
\nOut of Her Shell.<\/p>\n

It felt like a
\nslow Death,
\nas if she were
\nconsuming
\nHer own Body,
\nday-by-creeping-day.<\/p>\n

One torturous day
\nShe felt Her Self
\nbreaking into
\nbrittle pieces,
\ncrack-by-crack.<\/p>\n

She began
\nOne Last
\nStriving Struggle,
\nOne Last
\nDesperate,
\nDangerous Dangling
\nover the
\nDisaster of Her
\nFalling.<\/p>\n

But instead of
\nFalling<\/p>\n

She Became
\nAware.<\/p>\n

Aware of the
\nBesotted Beauty
\nof Her
\nSun-Orange
\nWings.<\/p>\n

And She Flew.<\/p>\n

Are You Aware
\nof
\nYour Wings?<\/p>\n

(Photo by Joshua J. Cotten; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Awareness She Awoke in Darkness, day after day, even on the Brightest of Days. Feeling like an amorphous Blob, overhearing Passersby commenting to each Other that She needed to come Out of Her Shell. It felt like a slow Death, as if she were consuming Her own Body, day-by-creeping-day. One torturous day She felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3044\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}