{"id":2759,"date":"2015-04-17T00:06:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T00:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2015-06-08T16:50:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T16:50:48","slug":"at-the-moment-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/at-the-moment-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Moment of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

My soul divided.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perfection<\/span><\/p>\n

Distilled and ascended,<\/span><\/p>\n

A pure and magnificent mist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Avarice, Envy, Selfishness, and Apathy<\/span><\/p>\n

Congealed, sloughed and sank.<\/span><\/p>\n

Me, I was mostly Apathy.<\/span><\/p>\n

I looked back<\/span><\/p>\n

Over my dark shoulder as<\/span><\/p>\n

My perfect self<\/span><\/p>\n

Shimmered toward the light.<\/span><\/p>\n

Impulsively, I called out<\/span><\/p>\n

In a moment of pseudo compassion,<\/span><\/p>\n

That was actually<\/span><\/p>\n

Just another form of selfishness,<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t trust the Oblivion of Heaven!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStay where you are!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

My kind, gentle self did not hear,<\/span><\/p>\n

Glided away,<\/span><\/p>\n

And disappeared from my sight.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I skulked into Hell,<\/span><\/p>\n

An abandoned street<\/span><\/p>\n

Of ugly houses<\/span><\/p>\n

In the stinking desert.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yards nothing but hard dry soil,<\/span><\/p>\n

Shot with dusty faded rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Withered broken weeds<\/span><\/p>\n

Poked from fissures in walkways,<\/span><\/p>\n

Reminders of<\/span><\/p>\n

The randomness of death,<\/span><\/p>\n

Not able to remember that<\/span><\/p>\n

They once carried life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each empty dreadful house<\/span><\/p>\n

Shrouded in a coat of inches-thick,<\/span><\/p>\n

Cracked, bleached pastel paint,<\/span><\/p>\n

Layer-upon-layer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI deserve this,\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I commented to my bitter self<\/span><\/p>\n

As I approached the home<\/span><\/p>\n

Of my next eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t care enough<\/span><\/p>\n

To even wonder<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether<\/span><\/p>\n

I was also enjoying<\/span><\/p>\n

Heaven.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Written by Kay Kole Leary<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 My soul divided. Perfection Distilled and ascended, A pure and magnificent mist. Avarice, Envy, Selfishness, and Apathy Congealed, sloughed and sank. Me, I was mostly Apathy. I looked back Over my dark shoulder as My perfect self Shimmered toward … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-edition","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentweb.bellevuecollege.edu\/belletrist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}