{"id":2721,"date":"2012-09-21T02:57:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2012-09-21T02:57:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:57:55","slug":"being-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2721","title":{"rendered":"Being Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s happened to me?<br \/>\nWhere am I at?<br \/>\nI am in the road<br \/>\nand no one remembers me.<br \/>\nThe signs tell me<br \/>\nnothing of where I am.<br \/>\nThey do not show me<br \/>\nthe way out of loneliness.<br \/>\nI do not know if it\u2019s morning or evening.<br \/>\nThe light has no direction.<br \/>\nThe moon hovers listlessly.<\/p>\n<p>All I can do is stop,<br \/>\nsit by the road,<br \/>\nwait for a stranger to pass,<br \/>\na child to run by,<br \/>\na woman to smile,<br \/>\nbecause I have lost my name,<br \/>\nmy memory,<br \/>\nthe book of my destiny.<br \/>\nI have just myself,<br \/>\nand the dust in my hand.<br \/>\nThe dust which never changes.<br \/>\nThe dust that creates roses.<br \/>\nThat keeps time in a glass,<br \/>\nthat bakes into bricks<br \/>\nand builds houses.<\/p>\n<p>Am I a stranded traveler?<br \/>\nA prodigal son?<br \/>\nDo the harvests wait for my labor?<br \/>\nDoes my mother call out<br \/>\nnot knowing my name?<br \/>\nHave I been born again,<br \/>\nor did I die in the ocean?<br \/>\nDid I die in the desert?<br \/>\nDid I pass on from a star<br \/>\nto the end of creation?<br \/>\nGod,<br \/>\nwhat\u2019s happened to me?<br \/>\nWhere am I at?<br \/>\nWill you come before night?<br \/>\nWill you find me in your dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s happened to me? Where am I at? I am in the road and no one remembers me. The signs tell me nothing of where&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2721\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Being Lost<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-index-of-all-poems","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2721\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}