{"id":2998,"date":"2013-01-20T01:08:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2013-01-20T01:08:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T00:08:10","slug":"enough-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"Enough Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is more time than<br \/>\nanything else.<br \/>\nTime is eternal.<br \/>\nSo I ask you,<br \/>\nwhy am I always short of time?<br \/>\nNever have enough,<br \/>\nto do what I have to do.<br \/>\nForever is in everything,<br \/>\nswallowing up the minutes<br \/>\nfaster than time can make them.<\/p>\n<p>And if there is so much time,<br \/>\nwhy is my life denied what it needs<br \/>\nto perfect itself?<br \/>\nTo write every poem inside me,<br \/>\nlike seeds ready to be born.<br \/>\nTo take care of everything<br \/>\nthat needs my care,<br \/>\nand a little charity besides.<\/p>\n<p>And the sheer wastefulness of time,<br \/>\nwhen I am too tired to go on,<br \/>\nit runs through my fingers<br \/>\nlike sand,<br \/>\nlike water,<br \/>\nmocking my efforts to cup it,<br \/>\ngoing on to a sea<br \/>\nthat doesn\u2019t need more time.<br \/>\nIn frustration I call out,<br \/>\nstop!<br \/>\nI need more time.<br \/>\nLet me finish the love affair<br \/>\nof my life.<\/p>\n<p>Let me find the meaning<br \/>\nof all my sorrows.<br \/>\nLet me weave a tapestry<br \/>\nfrom the dangling strands of joy,<br \/>\nand never have regrets,<br \/>\nbecause there wasn\u2019t enough time<br \/>\nto love,<br \/>\nto dance,<br \/>\nto fill the hunger in a soul<br \/>\nstruggling,<br \/>\nto open all the doors<br \/>\nwanting to be opened<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is more time than anything else. Time is eternal. So I ask you, why am I always short of time? Never have enough, to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=2998\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enough Time<\/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-2998","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\/2998","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=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}