{"id":1017,"date":"2020-12-14T18:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T18:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:45:00","slug":"this-life-for-peter-mckinnon-on-our-3rd-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/2020\/12\/14\/this-life-for-peter-mckinnon-on-our-3rd-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"This Life (for Peter McKinnon on our 3rd Anniversary)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"392\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-13-2020-This-Life-for-Peter-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-13-2020-This-Life-for-Peter-1.jpg 392w, https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/12-13-2020-This-Life-for-Peter-1-300x132.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/audio\/This%20Life.m4a?_t=1608306021\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block\" style=\"font-weight: normal;font-size: 15px;line-height: 1.3\"><strong><em>This Life, for Peter McKinnon on our 3<sup>rd<\/sup> Anniversary<\/em><\/strong><br>\u00a0<br>I know Sorrow. I know her well.<br>I watched her turn and cast her spell.<br>Her wrist flicked out as if to say<br>\u2018You do not count, in any way\u2019.<br>\u00a0<br>And through my life, I\u2019ve stood outside<br>narrowed circles of ego pride.<br>The ones I chose did not choose me<br>na\u00efve and small, I could not see.<br>\u00a0<br>And through the many lives I\u2019ve lead<br>with equal measure, heart and head<br>though understanding isn\u2019t firm\u2026<br>self-centered actions make me squirm:<br>I note life\u2019s ensuing Karma.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>You spoke intentions, clear and wise:<br>my \u2018Other\u2019 self in smug disguise.<br>You forced my laughs and calmed my cries<br>when emotion ran that river.<br>\u00a0<br>You mentioned, had I met you first<br>and had you met me long ago<br>you doubted we\u2019d have this same thirst<br>for you and I lived deeper woe.<br>\u00a0<br>But those same blows have made us strong.<br>And with each strengthening, our Core<br>caught Understanding from the wrong<br>and even won the almost fatal war.<br>\u00a0<br>We grew our wings, while falling down<br>for someone said, \u2018you can\u2019t fall up\u2019.<br>Rivers rage fast, but we won\u2019t drown<br>because we have each other.<br>\u00a0<br>Three years along this winding road<br>three years of melding heart to Soul<br>three years, our rivers have not slowed<br>three years of making two halves, whole.<br>\u00a0<br>I know it isn\u2019t merely three.<br>I know you know that, too.<br>I wouldn\u2019t change one single thing.<br>For all those things brought me to you.<br>\u00a0<br>And, sometimes when I catch your glance,<br>watch crinkles form beside your eyes<br>or feel your arms encircle me<br>I understand I\u2019ve won the Prize.<br>I understand I\u2019ve known you well<br>we came upon each other\u2019s spell<br>for nothing happens, here, by chance:<br>we\u2019re charged to find Eternity<br>inside our Here and Now.<br>\u00a0<br>This life.<br>This crazy, wonderful, magical life.<br>YOU.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>For Peter McKinnon on our third anniversary.<br>Love is the language spoken here.<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br><br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hughesgallery.net\/barbarahelveyhughes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}