{"id":3296,"date":"2024-09-30T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:11:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T15:11:35","slug":"monster-in-the-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/09\/30\/monster-in-the-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"Monster In the Closet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n <\/p>\n

Monster In the Closet<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wise Ones
\nTeach
\nthat the
\nDeepest Wrestle
\nis not between
\nGood and Evil,
\nbut rather
\na Face-Off
\nbetween
\nGlowering Fear and
\nGrinning Love.<\/p>\n

If Love is
\nThe Light
\nthat The Maker
\nused to Form
\nthe Face of
\nThe You
\nthat Will
\nForever Be,<\/p>\n

How did
\nFear
\nSneak into
\nThe Garden
\nof Delights,
\nsowing Weeds of
\nFight and Flight?<\/p>\n

I believe
\nIt crept into
\nThe Light
\nbearing
\nThe Noxious Notion<\/p>\n

That We Will
\nOne Day
\nCease to Be.<\/p>\n

The Unholy
\nDagger of Doubt
\nthat The Maker
\nHolds us in
\nThe Arms of Forever.<\/p>\n

The Dread that
\nWe have Waited
\nToo Long for
\nThis or That,
\nFear Masquerading
\nas Regret.<\/p>\n

I Want
\nto Learn
\nto Live
\nin the Knowing
\nthat<\/p>\n

To Be
\nIs the Laughter
\nthat can Vanquish
\nthe Imaginary Monster
\nin the Closet of
\nNot to Be.<\/p>\n

(Photo by David Brooke; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Monster In the Closet Wise Ones Teach that the Deepest Wrestle is not between Good and Evil, but rather a Face-Off between Glowering Fear and Grinning Love. If Love is The Light that The Maker used to Form the Face of The You that Will Forever Be, How did Fear Sneak into The Garden […]<\/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-3296","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\/3296","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=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}