{"id":3742,"date":"1994-11-14T14:44:48","date_gmt":"1994-11-14T21:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2014-11-15T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T17:12:04","slug":"melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/poetry\/melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeter than honey<\/p>\n<p>My darling sweetness<\/p>\n<p>Sweetness that is not me<\/p>\n<p>Sweetness that lights up the world<\/p>\n<p>Liquid sweetness that takes you out into the world<\/p>\n<p>You flow as future, your future<\/p>\n<p>I marvel at your life<\/p>\n<p>I live in a secret place<\/p>\n<p>That death will not erode<\/p>\n<p>That place of your beauty<\/p>\n<p>That place of your joy<\/p>\n<p>That place of your hope<\/p>\n<p>What you are illuminates world<\/p>\n<p>On you, world renews itself as I fade<\/p>\n<p>But I fade content in your beauty<\/p>\n<p>Content to have seen and known you<\/p>\n<p>I have seen the face of the future that is not me<\/p>\n<p>And I have loved you to my core and beyond<\/p>\n<p>I have touched the face of God in your sight<\/p>\n<p>And your beauty leads me in ways you now know not<\/p>\n<p>Towards another<\/p>\n<p>Towards the hint in well crafted words<\/p>\n<p>Towards the gleam in youth<\/p>\n<p>Towards the rustle of showering yellow fall leaves<\/p>\n<p>Towards what only touches us tangentially<\/p>\n<p>But informs us of what we now can not know<\/p>\n<p>That guides, informs and measures<\/p>\n<p>Worlding and Horizon<\/p>\n<p>By that which is not<\/p>\n<p>Worlding and Horizon<\/p>\n<p>You are that my child<\/p>\n<p>And I wonder and marvel at how you are that<\/p>\n<p>And not me, my thoughts<\/p>\n<p>You are the possibility of the impossibility<\/p>\n<p>Of the not me that nevertheless baths my soul in radiant warmth<\/p>\n<p>And calls me beyond my life<\/p>\n<p>To future without future, without temporality, world, horizon as mine<\/p>\n<p>But in your sweet face<\/p>\n<p>A future not mine unfolds<\/p>\n<p>And I kiss my ground that gives way before you<\/p>\n<p>In love, I welcome your way into the world<\/p>\n<p>As you welcome my way out of the world<\/p>\n<p>And for these precious moments I am touched by the trace of eternity when I touch you my sweetest Melissa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweeter than honey My darling sweetness Sweetness that is not me Sweetness that lights up the world Liquid sweetness that takes you out into the world You flow as future, your future I marvel at your life I live in a secret place That death will not erode That place of your beauty That place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixermuse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}