{"id":346,"date":"2010-08-04T06:37:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T11:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php"},"modified":"2014-03-24T01:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T08:27:38","slug":"fading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/writing\/writing-2002\/fading","title":{"rendered":"Fading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><em>By Martin Falatic<br \/>\nWritten 2002-01-01<br \/>\nRevised 2002-01-01<\/em><\/h5>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>I awoke, long past dawn, to the silence of my thoughts&#8230;<br \/>\nTurbulent were the dreams that bore me along on shoulders of stifled warmth<br \/>\non this First Day of another nameless century<\/p>\n<p>Falling from dream to dream like stepping stones underfoot,<br \/>\neach held in place more by wishes than by truth<br \/>\nPeering over the railing that provides a sense of security<br \/>\nFear of falling held in check, then unleashed,<br \/>\nwhen the railing fades to mist whilst we lean against it.<\/p>\n<p>A momentary imbalance, pebbles skittering over the edge as we scramble backwards,<br \/>\nbreathless, hearts pounding, minds screaming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Glimpses of the dream-time remain, questions begged but unanswered&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat is it to endure in these times, to prevail over one&#8217;s fears,<br \/>\nto struggle and succeed, only to watch as the foundations evaporate beneath us?<\/p>\n<p>What anarchy of the soul must govern this space of the heart?<br \/>\nWhat tyranny of reason replaces love and trust?<\/p>\n<p>I ponder this, as the dream fades away&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"hr\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Martin Falatic Written 2002-01-01 Revised 2002-01-01 I awoke, long past dawn, to the silence of my thoughts&#8230; Turbulent were the dreams that bore me along on shoulders of stifled warmth on this First Day of another nameless century Falling from dream to dream like stepping stones underfoot, each held in place more by wishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":288,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-346","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/346\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martysparadox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}