{"id":401,"date":"2006-05-29T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/wordpress\/writing\/1993\/3-6-93-saved-from-the-sun-by-the-moon\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T17:02:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T23:02:34","slug":"3-6-93-saved-from-the-sun-by-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/?page_id=401","title":{"rendered":"3-6-93 saved from the sun by the moon"},"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=401\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>3\/6\/93<\/p>\n<p><strong>saved from the sun by the moon<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From a young age I was told<br \/>\nNever stare at the sun<br \/>\nThat it would burn away my corneas<br \/>\nThat my vision would come undone<\/p>\n<p>Curious we all are at the heat it gives<br \/>\nAs if a truth could be found there<br \/>\nIt emanates life as the shadows shift<br \/>\nAnd the danger of solar flare<\/p>\n<p>Now the sun reflects off all I see<br \/>\nFrom dawn to twilight&#8217;s departing hue<br \/>\nBut as I write in this fragile night<br \/>\nThe brightest beam mirrors off of you<\/p>\n<p>When I look into your face<br \/>\nI feel the burn of warning words<br \/>\nThe pleasant pain of unrequited vision<br \/>\nThe sorrow of reflective sources<br \/>\nGenerating enough light to blind myself<\/p>\n<p>The moon mellows the rays some<br \/>\nFramed by the branches of a forest tributary<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s truth the other side of the same coin<br \/>\nIcy light lowers the visual temp<br \/>\nCreating snow banks that do not exist<\/p>\n<p>I sit burning cold<br \/>\nKnowing what I will not accept<br \/>\nWilling to go blind today<br \/>\nJust in order to see<br \/>\nThe moon says let go now<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t want to listen<\/p>\n<p>stubborn, I cast my eyes downward<br \/>\nHoping my feet are the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3\/6\/93 saved from the sun by the moon From a young age I was told Never stare at the sun That it would burn away my corneas That my vision would come undone Curious we all are at the heat it gives As if a truth could be found there It emanates life as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":395,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PeNcU-6t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401"}],"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=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bittermancircle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}