{"id":131,"date":"2024-09-17T06:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/?p=131"},"modified":"2024-09-17T06:50:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T10:50:54","slug":"the-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/the-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s 6:30am and I don&#8217;t know why I am awake, but the muse is knocking on the door with a metaphor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He opens the door to his world and I peer though;<br>Seeing it as a terminal through which planes fly<br>Into a different existence than the one I have been living.<br><br>A taste, a peek, an observant moment<br>That makes me see my world is too crowded, too tangled<br>So full of the unnecessary &#8211; I&#8217;m not ready to fly, unburdened;<br>Such that this ticket to ride may take deep preparation.<br><br>Stacks and stacks and stacks of my life<br>Fed into the system over time drain me dry<br>Yet now I&#8217;m in a hurry to unloosen all the strife<br>So I can cross the door, board the plane, and fly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 6:30am and I don&#8217;t know why I am awake, but the muse is knocking on the door with a metaphor. He opens the door to his world and I peer though;Seeing it as a terminal through which planes flyInto a different existence than the one I have been living. A taste, a peek, an&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/the-terminal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Terminal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}