{"id":14,"date":"2024-04-12T11:48:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T11:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/?p=14"},"modified":"2024-04-12T11:48:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T11:48:45","slug":"converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/converts\/","title":{"rendered":"Converts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We the brave the open heart<br>Withstood while worlds fell apart<br>Though death beckoned a time or two<br>With God&#8217;s help, we made it through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some did choose to leave the scene<br>That just isn&#8217;t in our genes<br>We stayed behind for mission&#8217;s sake<br>And became alive, awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps we sleep-walked prior times<br>Maybe committed love-dark crimes<br>Maybe childish thoughts drove us<br>Much too selfish. Too much fuss.<br><br>But here we stand on earth today<br>On a mission, so we stay<br>To linger here, we know not why<br>The forefront of our skills apply.<br><br>We&#8217;d need more lifetimes, two or three<br>To do all, be all, while we&#8217;re free<br>No more laments, no more whine<br>Now it is our time to shine!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4\/13\/2024<br>Sagefairy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We the brave the open heartWithstood while worlds fell apartThough death beckoned a time or twoWith God&#8217;s help, we made it through. Some did choose to leave the sceneThat just isn&#8217;t in our genesWe stayed behind for mission&#8217;s sakeAnd became alive, awake. Perhaps we sleep-walked prior timesMaybe committed love-dark crimesMaybe childish thoughts drove usMuch too&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/converts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Converts<\/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\/14"}],"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=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sage2l.com\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}