{"id":3361,"date":"2013-06-04T03:33:05","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T02:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w7m.3ee.myftpupload.com\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2013-06-15T03:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T02:39:15","slug":"3361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"Everything in Reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to see<br \/>\neverything upside down<br \/>\nfrom the center out,<br \/>\npeople walking backward,<br \/>\ntime reliving itself,<br \/>\ndeath retreating into youth,<br \/>\nchildhood,<br \/>\na poem disappearing into itself,<br \/>\nlogic undone.<br \/>\nCause following effect.<\/p>\n<p>For I have come to a conclusion.<br \/>\nEverything has a purpose<br \/>\nonly in beginning.<br \/>\nLove explodes.<br \/>\nBeauty happens.<br \/>\nThe color of eyes reveal sunsets<br \/>\nas well as dawns,<br \/>\nand to find anything<br \/>\nwe must go back to its entrance.<\/p>\n<p>The woman before she enters,<br \/>\nbefore love finds her,<br \/>\nbefore a cry in the dark<br \/>\nwas ever shouted.<br \/>\nThe beach without shells,<br \/>\nthe darkness before being kissed<br \/>\nwith light.<\/p>\n<p>And then we would know,<br \/>\nhow undetermined everything is.<br \/>\nHow radiant it enters the world,<br \/>\nhow pure the air<br \/>\nthat\u2019s never been filled with smoke,<br \/>\nthe earth baring a face<br \/>\nof clean stone.<\/p>\n<p>But the door I came through is shut.<br \/>\nThe past is more buried<br \/>\nthan any future.<br \/>\nThe past is eternal,<br \/>\nthe coming dawn will rise and fade<br \/>\nfollowed by another.<br \/>\nSeeing things in reverse<br \/>\nis no better than looking into the distance,<br \/>\nexcept,<br \/>\nbeing born was a triumph.<br \/>\nThe rest<br \/>\nis up to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to see everything upside down from the center out, people walking backward, time reliving itself, death retreating into youth, childhood, a poem&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/?p=3361\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Everything in Reverse<\/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-3361","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\/3361","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=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theodorewaterfield.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}