{"id":257,"date":"2010-08-03T04:35:52","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:10:28","slug":"tree-of-life","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-2010\/tree-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Tree of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>By Martin Falatic<br \/>\nWritten 2010-07-30 03:00<br \/>\nRevised 2010-08-03<\/em><\/h5>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Taste and savor this proffered fruit<br \/>\nSucculent and full of chaos<br \/>\nThe foodstuff of distant gods<\/p>\n<p>Descend from that mindful zenith<br \/>\nThe lofty, cluttered seat of wisdom<br \/>\nWhere thoughts surge and collide and grow<\/p>\n<p>See with the unblinking, tearless eye<br \/>\nA world in relief, its secrets laid bare<br \/>\nAll possible paths limned in moonlight<\/p>\n<p>Breathe in, breathe out<br \/>\nBreathe out, breathe in<br \/>\nLips parted and near, sharing their bounty<\/p>\n<p>Feel the steady, urgent beat<br \/>\nWarmth grows as blood flows<br \/>\nDeeper and stronger by degrees<\/p>\n<p>Inner tensions flutter and fade<br \/>\nLonging, hoping, aching<br \/>\nFear and trust commingled<\/p>\n<p>Down the spine, below the line<br \/>\nSweat falls freely, then pools<br \/>\nLovers&#8217; caresses become grasps<\/p>\n<p>At the nadir, the fixtures of desire<br \/>\nFevered engines of apotheosis<br \/>\nFind their true proportions<\/p>\n<p>A descent into darkness<br \/>\nSeeking the light within and without<br \/>\nSeeking transcendence<\/p>\n<p>Quickening now, the Self is cast adrift<br \/>\nTime is frozen at the penultimate moment<br \/>\nBeyond meaning, direction or purpose<\/p>\n<p>Desire without possession &#8211; sated<br \/>\nLove without regret &#8211; requited<br \/>\nThought without reason &#8211; Nirvana<\/p>\n<p>Transformation, exclamations<br \/>\nLanguage forgotten, sublimated<br \/>\nSounds primal and motions furious<\/p>\n<p>Plummeting now, enraptured,<br \/>\nTowards a sun of shared designs<br \/>\nBlazing unseen across the midnight sky<\/p>\n<p>Amid mindless, driven passion<br \/>\nExquisite frissons feed back, amplified<br \/>\nUnbearable tremors of delicious surrender<\/p>\n<p>A thunderbolt splays across these chords<br \/>\nBridging heaven and earth, wisdom and desire<br \/>\nDenouement and resurrection merged as one<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; = &#8211; = &#8211; = &#8211; = &#8211; = &#8211; = &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The fallen ascend as these steps are retraced,<br \/>\nYearning to taste of this fragment of Paradise<br \/>\nAnd in enlightenment, to fall anew&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Falatic Written 2010-07-30 03:00 Revised 2010-08-03 Taste and savor this proffered fruit Succulent and full of chaos The foodstuff of distant gods Descend from that mindful zenith The lofty, cluttered seat of wisdom Where thoughts surge and collide and grow See with the unblinking, tearless eye A world in relief, its secrets laid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":265,"menu_order":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-257","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/257\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}