{"id":391,"date":"2006-05-29T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T22:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/12-3-92-visit\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T16:52:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T22:52:04","slug":"12-3-92-visit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=391","title":{"rendered":"12-3-92 Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"clear:left; float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-top:10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=391\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>12\/3\/92<\/p>\n<p><strong>          Visit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before the sun scratched and rolled over<br \/>\nA friend long dead came to talk and visit<br \/>\nFragile butterfly still wet with bloom<br \/>\nA lazy eye and heart immense<br \/>\nNever have I been graced by such a spirit<br \/>\nIn my dreams<\/p>\n<p>Untouched by time,timeless<br \/>\nWe spoke as adults for the first time<br \/>\nMy questions answered,her voice true<br \/>\nBanter of life and afterlife<br \/>\nMy heart consumed by a pure presence<br \/>\nAnd yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I was a violent man letting people get the best of me<br \/>\nCruel,petty and unworthy<br \/>\nUndeserving of such a visit<br \/>\nUnless it was a lesson, a roadsign<br \/>\nA reminder of gentle options<br \/>\nThat I could love a woman as a human being<\/p>\n<p>She brought faith for the future<br \/>\nWrapped in the lost promise of the past<br \/>\nI awoke thanking God for this contact<br \/>\nMystery offering to a wandering mind<br \/>\nAnd a nearly abandoned heart<\/p>\n<p>As a boy,I almost scored a field goal<br \/>\nFor the other team<br \/>\nBy snapping the ball too high on a punt<br \/>\nThrough the goal posts<br \/>\nWhile my friend died three or four more snaps away<\/p>\n<p>And I could have lived with the embarrassment<br \/>\nIf I could have held my friend again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12\/3\/92 Visit Before the sun scratched and rolled over A friend long dead came to talk and visit Fragile butterfly still wet with bloom A lazy eye and heart immense Never have I been graced by such a spirit In my dreams Untouched by time,timeless We spoke as adults for the first time My questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":394,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-6j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/391\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}