{"id":46212,"date":"2019-02-01T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/?p=46212"},"modified":"2019-02-01T14:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:53:00","slug":"be-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/poetry\/be-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Be the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"\nIn November of 2016, after spending a day with a number of interactions with people who were suffering emotional pain, I jotted down a few thoughts. I saved those thoughts in my calendar and kept moving them until I felt the urge to write about them. &nbsp;In February, 2019 I wrote the poem below based on those thoughts. My love and prayers go to their families, and to all of us who are suffering any type of pain in our lives.\n<strong>Be The Light&nbsp;<\/strong>\n\tEnd of day, saw people in pain today<br>\nThoughts of their pain linger with me now<br>\nI look up at the twilight sky<br>\nHalf Moon over the ocean<br>\nPretty colors evolving<br>\nShades of pink, painted by the sun\nEnvisioning macro view, our beautiful planet<br>\nZoom in, oceans, continents<br>\nStill beauty, perfection<br>\nBut speckled in that pretty canvas<br>\nPlaces of disorder<br>\nPain and discord<br>\nManifestations of fear, anger\nWhat contrast, such challenges<br>\nHow to bring light to such darkness<br>\nOne by one, where we can<br>\nBe the light<br>\nAlways be the light\nJoe Fox<br>\nFebruary 2019\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November of 2016, after spending a day with a number of interactions with people who were suffering emotional pain, I jotted down a few thoughts. I saved those thoughts in my calendar and kept moving them until I felt the urge to write about them. &nbsp;In February, 2019 I wrote the poem below based&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46213,"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\/46212"}],"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=46212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joefoxalliance.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}