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stop the car, stop the car (we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the bridge) I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting out
\nI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve have got to see
\ndo you see? a light down in the bay
\nunder the water, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s calling up to us
\ncan you curb the urge? climb onto the rail and scramble over
\nto the other side, but one more step. and the push
\nit boils up from deep inside, and you know
\nit just feels right; this thing is what you
\nwere born to do<\/p>\n
as the cars and trucks rush by, lost in their exhaust
\nand automation
\nif they see you at all, they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care
\nor feel the way you do
\nmachines, deaf to the siren song
\nand blind to the beacon in the deep, green water below<\/p>\n
it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s yours, this urge; they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take this thing away from you
\nso let it play out as it may on your conscience
\nlike fingers on the keyboard, pressed into the service
\nof a Bach suite
\nit is not death you are afraid of, it is knowing (as you do)
\nthat you will not die, after this, but only emerge<\/p>\n
if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never grow up, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never change
\nif you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have everything you had ever known stay the same
\nand be powerless when in changes, in spite of everything
\nyou are or try to do
\nall that you have got to do
\nis cowardice; grow deaf and blind like those machines
\nthat bearing their passengers and cargo across the bridge
\noblivious to the chance, this one chance
\nto be ever so much more
\nthan they are, or could otherwise be<\/p>\n
to be really and truly alive, you must dare to leap
\nand, leaping, break your chrysalis against the water
\nand emerge, triumphantly aware of the wings you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d grown
\nunder a shroud of flesh and bone <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
stop the car, stop the car (we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on the bridge) I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m getting out I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve have got to see do you see? a light down in the bay under the water, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s calling up to us can you curb the urge? climb onto the rail and scramble over to the other side, but one more step. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}