{"id":104,"date":"2022-07-27T14:41:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/?p=104"},"modified":"2022-07-27T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T19:04:51","slug":"higher-than-the-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pensivejournal.com\/poetry\/higher-than-the-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher than the Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"
I went to the hills to find myself and found myself
\npatiently smiling beneath the tallest tree
\non top of the world.
\nI rose to greet myself and became lost in an embrace.
\nAbove an eagle drifted and the wind wandered
\nthrough the trees,
\ntheir leaves whispering
\nabout the wonders waiting
\nbehind this world.<\/p>\n
I took off my heavy bag and watched me unpack it on the forest floor.
\n\u201cI could have carried less,\u201d I said.
\nBut I just smiled back at me and said,
\n\u201cYou are allowed to live the life you have
\nwandered into.
\nJust keep coming back to me
\nwhen too many joys begin to burden your bag
\nI will always be waiting for you
\nto wake and wander outside
\nand in wonder see yourself as someone worthy
\nof basking in the light of a thousand stars.<\/p>\n
Learn to love all that you carry
\nand lift each task like the wine of your wedding.
\nYour spirit married this body for you
\nto find out that forever is a fragrance that flies
\nfrom the flower your heart visits
\nlike a bee making love with the body of life.<\/p>\n
As you were learning to live,
\nlife was learning your laughter
\nand studying your smile for clues of who is the father
\nof this son begotten by a breath of solar wind
\nthen suckled by the softness of a world
\nwhere delicate lives are lived
\nbeneath an ever-changing sky
\nwhere oceans travel in clouds
\nto far away corners
\nso the children of dreams can chance the dance
\nof becoming everything beautiful
\nby losing all fear of taking flight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I went to the hills to find myself and found myself patiently smiling beneath the tallest tree on top of the world. I rose to greet myself and became lost in an embrace. Above an eagle drifted and the wind wandered through the trees, their leaves whispering about the wonders waiting behind this world. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[7],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n