{"id":2845,"date":"2016-04-08T01:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2016-03-31T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T15:26:59","slug":"the-god-gene-and-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"The God Gene and Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the master in this house?<br \/>\nI said to the God gene inside me.<br \/>\nI find no trace of you in the world,<br \/>\nand yet you consume me.<br \/>\nDeciding how my life is played.<br \/>\nWhat shall we do with each other?<br \/>\nIn the end,<br \/>\nwhich one of us will matter?<br \/>\nAnd hormones that push me<br \/>\nfrom sex to love.<\/p>\n<p>What shall I do with you?<br \/>\nHow much of you is me?<br \/>\nHow much can I endure?<br \/>\nLove that is forever then fades.<br \/>\nIs shattered,<br \/>\nbecomes cynical and dry.<br \/>\nWhat have we done with each other?<\/p>\n<p>Is there a true love story?<br \/>\nAnd,<br \/>\nwhat can be determined<br \/>\nfrom being young and growing old?<br \/>\nMaking choices of what will be<br \/>\nand what will not be,<br \/>\nas if in the end,<br \/>\nI am not passion,<br \/>\nbut only a litany of life<br \/>\ngoing this way and that,<br \/>\npretending it is destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Could I do better?<br \/>\nHow much freedom do I have?<br \/>\nWhere can I leave my regrets?<br \/>\nWhat does the world expect of me?<br \/>\nWhat do I expect?<br \/>\nPerhaps kindness.<br \/>\nOnly kindness,<br \/>\nand a voice that whispers<br \/>\non my pillow,<br \/>\nunderstanding<br \/>\nis what we need<br \/>\nto forgive<br \/>\nand be forgiven for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the master in this house? I said to the God gene inside me. I find no trace of you in the world, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2845\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The God Gene and Others<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","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\/2845","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=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}