{"id":5640,"date":"2026-04-17T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:06:59","slug":"to-merely-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/to-merely-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"To merely exist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How strange and pretty it is to merely exist<br\/ >To watch the sky and wonder why it shines,<br\/ >To stare at the sun being swallowed by the sea<br\/ >And feel moved by its light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To point a finger at a rainbow<br\/ >And marvel at its colours each time,<br\/ >To choose the prettiest flower<br\/ >And place it in the hands of someone we love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To spread our arms<br\/ >When the wind blows a little too hard,<br\/ >And hold someone\u2019s hand<br\/ >When we\u2019re a little too scared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To watch those around us grow<br\/ >But never ourselves,<br\/ >To think we have time<br\/ >And then ask: \u201cWhere did it go?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To constantly overthink<br\/ >And believe we did it wrong,<br\/ >To be afraid of living and dying<br\/ >And to know too much the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way we dream and hope<br\/ >And search for magic in small things,<br\/ >The way we wish upon stars and birthday cakes<br\/ >And blow dandelion petals to the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way our legs tap to the music<br\/ >The way it makes us dance and sing,<br\/ >And brings back memories<br\/ >We thought we had forgotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way we perfectly laugh when we\u2019re happy<br\/ >And cry when we\u2019re hurt,<br\/ >The way we fall in love and suffer for it<br\/ >And do it again after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The way we turn to words when living isn\u2019t enough<br\/ >The way we write and make Art,<br\/ >Because deep inside we know<br\/ >That life means much more than to just breathe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To name the light<br\/ >And ask questions no one answers,<br\/ >To feel the joy and the grief, the love and the pain<br\/ >To feel it all too deep and to merely feel it at all.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How strange and pretty it is to merely existTo watch the sky and wonder why it shines,To stare at the sun being swallowed by the seaAnd feel moved by its light. To point a finger at a rainbowAnd marvel at its colours each time,To choose the prettiest flowerAnd place it in the hands of someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":5614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,835],"tags":[861],"class_list":{"0":"post-5640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-poesia","8":"category-zona-creativa","9":"tag-deustopoesia26","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laespiral.deusto.es\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}