{"id":10942,"date":"2020-01-25T07:37:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10942"},"modified":"2020-01-21T23:31:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T04:31:44","slug":"requiem-for-the-disheartened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=10942","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for the Disheartened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>None of us will ever accomplish anything or commanding, except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone<\/em> \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[ This is for the hopeless who recognize and accept their lot ]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel in the silence of the night?<\/p>\n<p>Betraying your own promises,<\/p>\n<p>breaking your personal pledges\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When you know you haven\u2019t done your best<\/p>\n<p>and given your all?<\/p>\n<p>When unrealized potential is lost and has slipped away<\/p>\n<p>When you don\u2019t want to open your eyes<\/p>\n<p>and stare into the mirror<\/p>\n<p>Blinded by too much of very little \u2013 and not enough of reality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of a day, there\u2019re no regrets, because there\u2019s an acceptance that<\/p>\n<p>there\u2019s no more to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a creeping dread found in quiet times \u2013 no epiphanies<\/p>\n<p>sitting in the dark and not daring to turn on the lights.<\/p>\n<p>How unsettling \u2013 finding comfort in holding your head in your hands and<\/p>\n<p>repeating the first thing that comes into your mind<\/p>\n<p>and ruminating the unsatisfactory answers with blank stares.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is only a cold comfort keeping company with an empty casing<\/p>\n<p>where you have come to understand your soul should be \u2013<\/p>\n<p>wanting for more where there is none.<\/p>\n<p>And there is no comfort at all uncovering simple truths \u2013<\/p>\n<p>knowing they are for simple minds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow will dawn, yet, another day that doesn\u2019t count for anything<\/p>\n<p>Just falling into a timelessness \u2013 lost yesterdays and unplanned tomorrows<\/p>\n<p>and you lay, uneasy, in bed \u2013 counting all misfortunes,<\/p>\n<p>lost opportunities, the times you wish you could have back\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Chris George\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>2005<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>None of us will ever accomplish anything or commanding, except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson &nbsp; [ This is for the hopeless who recognize and accept their lot ] &nbsp; How do you feel in the silence of the night? Betraying your own promises,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10942"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10942\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}