{"id":325,"date":"2011-04-28T02:38:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T02:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shamanicart.com\/dev\/?p=325"},"modified":"2011-04-28T02:38:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T02:38:23","slug":"the-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/2011\/04\/28\/the-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s high time we unwrapped ourselves<br \/>\nLoosing culture bound boxes that bind our souls<br \/>\nMistaking the outside for the inside while<br \/>\nDarkening our sovereign and innermost flames.<\/p>\n<p>Our humanity has long hidden itself<br \/>\nLike wild animals in the dark forest<br \/>\nTaming us was not the idea<br \/>\nDomestication hindered not helped.<\/p>\n<p>Layers of wrapping hide our brightness<br \/>\nDullness shadows our shy and radiant faces<br \/>\nBravado screams too loud<br \/>\nDrowning quiet and Knowing pulses.<\/p>\n<p>Our flames are diminishing, about to extinguish<br \/>\nThe hope held in passionate desires<br \/>\nFear asks conformance to ownerless imperatives<br \/>\nWhile expectant and faithful hungers<br \/>\nForget what once seemed so consoling.<\/p>\n<p>But dawn\u2019s light is here<br \/>\nWe are cracking the code<br \/>\nInvincible hearts expand<br \/>\nBeauty shows its pure and poignant face.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s high time we unwrapped ourselves<br \/>\nWe are the gift the Universe gave itself<br \/>\nLuminous promises foretelling revelations.<br \/>\nIf we do that now, glory will arrive,<br \/>\nThe planet will survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Carmella Weintraub<\/p>\n<p>October 1999<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s high time we unwrapped ourselves Loosing culture bound boxes that bind our souls Mistaking the outside for the inside while Darkening our sovereign and innermost flames. Our humanity has long hidden itself Like wild animals in the dark forest Taming us was not the idea Domestication hindered not helped. Layers of wrapping hide our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msiero.com\/artplussoul2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}