{"id":46169,"date":"2020-04-13T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/?p=46169"},"modified":"2020-04-13T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T14:04:00","slug":"our-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/poetry\/our-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\tHundreds of years ago<br \/>\nA woman stood on this beach<br \/>\nPresent, in her moment<br \/>\nShe lived her life, as I live mine now<br \/>\nShe felt the pain, the dread<br \/>\nThe worries, the uncertainty<br \/>\nAnd sometimes anger<br \/>\nAnd she knew a sense of wonder<br \/>\nThe joy, the happiness<br \/>\nShe knew gratitude<br \/>\nConnection and love.\nHundreds of years from now<br \/>\nA man will stand on this beach<br \/>\nPresent in his moment<br \/>\nHe will know fear, anxiety<br \/>\nHe will experience conflict<br \/>\nSadness and suffering<br \/>\nAnd he will also marvel at this beauty<br \/>\nAnd he will see the magnificence, perfection<br \/>\nIn people, in all things\nBut today, this is my moment<br \/>\nMy life, my turn<br \/>\nPresent now<br \/>\nAnd I have been afraid, felt despair<br \/>\nDeep sorrow, pain<br \/>\nFear, and anger\nBut I enjoy the true sense of wonder,<br \/>\nLaughter, happiness, and bliss<br \/>\nHope, and faith<br \/>\nGratitude, mindfulness<br \/>\nI cherish my connections to others, to all things\nThis is my time now, alone in this place of peace<br \/>\nEnjoying the solitude, the aloneness<br \/>\nAnd yet, feeling so part of,<br \/>\nStrongly connected, to everyone<br \/>\nThose who stood here yesterday<br \/>\nAnd those wondrous manifestations of love yet to be\nAnd lovingly with, each of you<br \/>\nAs we share our time here together<br \/>\nOur moment<br \/>\nA beautiful feeling<br \/>\nI have never felt before<br \/>\nI wish each of us moments of peace<br \/>\nLike the peace that allowed these thoughts to come to me\n<p>Joe Fox, April 13, 2020<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/image0-4.jpeg\" alt=\"image0-4\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"640\" width=\"368\" title=\"image0-4\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of years ago A woman stood on this beach Present, in her moment She lived her life, as I live mine now She felt the pain, the dread The worries, the uncertainty And sometimes anger And she knew a sense of wonder The joy, the happiness She knew gratitude Connection and love. Hundreds of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}