{"id":2893,"date":"2013-09-02T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T10:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2013-09-02T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T10:59:58","slug":"if-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/?p=2893","title":{"rendered":"If I"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"s1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If I <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

give you a few coins<\/span><\/p>\n

live my life in luxury<\/span><\/p>\n

and leave you in penury<\/span><\/p>\n

did I give ought of me<\/span><\/p>\n

or salve to conscience?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

or if I play a victim<\/span><\/p>\n

and then label you as bad<\/span><\/p>\n

dispense my forgiveness <\/span><\/p>\n

walk away feeling glad<\/span><\/p>\n

did I truly forgive ?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If I give tender care<\/span><\/p>\n

where love enfolds me <\/span><\/p>\n

is love already shared ?<\/span><\/p>\n

Do I have love to spare<\/span><\/p>\n

for those in dire need ?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If I let thoughts rise,<\/span><\/p>\n

to higher self and love <\/span><\/p>\n

is it big ego on display<\/span><\/p>\n

when my words balloon<\/span><\/p>\n

into the ether today?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If I let my pride feed<\/span><\/p>\n

energy to fear and power<\/span><\/p>\n

prop up leaders who divide<\/span><\/p>\n

puffed up – how can I see<\/span><\/p>\n

you and i are One humanity?<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Gael Bage<\/blockquote><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contemporary-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.magdalenabiela.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}