{"id":3652,"date":"2025-01-17T12:39:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2025-01-17T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T20:51:05","slug":"art-and-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2025\/01\/17\/art-and-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Art and Soul<\/strong><\/p>\n

You may have been Told
\nYou Were Born a Sinner,
\nYour Soul
\nBesmirched and Broken,<\/p>\n

Only Redeemable
\nby the Death
\nof Another.<\/p>\n

Or perhaps Your Soul is
\na Blank Slate –
\nTake Care
\nWhat\u2019s Written There,
\nLest You,
\nor Another –
\nIf You Permit It –
\nWrite a Tragedy,
\nor a Farce,
\nor Some Bore of a Story.<\/p>\n

But What If
\nWhat You Are Is
\na Beam of Light,<\/p>\n

Aimed from a Flame
\nMade of Undiluted Love,
\nForever Pure and Deathless,
\nTwined,
\neven at a Cosmic Distance,
\nWith Every Other Light,
\nas if There Is
\nNo Distance at All.<\/p>\n

And, What If
\nYour Soul Is
\nThe One-of-a-Kind
\nShine
\nthat Radiates from
\nThe Beam That Is You,<\/p>\n

and You –
\nand Only You –
\nAre Meant To Be
\na Sculptor of Your Shine.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s Why You Are.<\/p>\n

To Make Art
\nof Your Soul,
\nas Your Part of
\nThe Glimmer.<\/p>\n

Take as Many Orbits
\nas You Need.
\nThe Cosmos Is
\nYour Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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