{"id":724,"date":"2024-08-25T17:20:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pair-o-dice.filk.de\/?page_id=724"},"modified":"2024-09-24T22:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T20:15:34","slug":"shards-of-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/songs\/shards-of-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Shards of the Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They had loved in the Caves of the Morning<br \/>\nin that winter of shortage and strife.<br \/>\nHe asked: \u201cWhence fares the wind of our breathing?<br \/>\nIs there a Name to this life?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd she watched the smoke spiral and wither,<br \/>\nas she bowed to the spark that awoke.<br \/>\nWhen she\u2019d wrapped up back intoher hides<br \/>\nshe gravely spoke:<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is hidden in the shards of the rainbow,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>in the haze at the edge of the plain.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>There\u2019s a Name in our heartbeat that\u2019s calling<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>as we dance to the pulse of the rain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They had loved in the city of Zenith<br \/>\nand, dreamily, holding him tight,<br \/>\nshe asked: \u201cDo our Paths form a pattern?<br \/>\nDoes God dream of our footsteps at night?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he drank in the sounds of the city,<br \/>\ndistant cries and the song of a child,<br \/>\nand, shivering, caressing her hair,<br \/>\nhe gently smiled:<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is mingled with the trail of a moonbeam,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>and the thunder at the rim of the sea,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>there are patterns glimpsed in dream, song and mirror<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>but our Path there is all that we\u2019ll be.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had loved in the domed halls of Umbra,<br \/>\nand Io shone bright in the sky.<br \/>\nYou gazed at the beauty around us,<br \/>\nwonderingly whispering: \u201cWhy?\u201d<br \/>\nAnd our life support sang like the ocean,<br \/>\nand space was the cave overhead,<br \/>\nand I felt the chill brush of the eons<br \/>\nas I said:<\/p>\n<p><strong>It is written in the rays of the nova,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>and the dust from the distance untold.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>There are answers too vast to have meaning.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>There are reasons too small to behold.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Always up and around and within us,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>just beyond and far too far and so close.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Why there\u2019s rainbows and stardust and thunder <\/strong><strong>no one knows &#8211;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>yet while there\u2019s rainbows and stardust and thunder<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>there\u2019s the Question we lovers will pose.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had loved in the Caves of the Morning in that winter of shortage and strife. He asked: \u201cWhence fares the wind of our breathing? Is there a Name to this life?\u201d And she watched the smoke spiral and wither, as she bowed to the spark that awoke. When she\u2019d wrapped up back intoher hides&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":625,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-724","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/724\/revisions\/857"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pairodice.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}