How quickly yesterday’s great future
\nbecame the longing incompleteness of today.
\nWe drive onward through the regret
\nOf yesterday’s lost hopes,
\nlife’s abrupt changes
\nscattered about in
\nnewspaper stories of the day.<\/p>\n
The illusion takes the eye to darkness;
\nI amuse my heart with countless reminiscences.
\nThis sorrow bittered by
\nthe lost plans that could never have been.<\/p>\n
The morning bursts through to end
\nanother night I’ve lived through.<\/p>\n
I see
\nthe holes in this existence
\nas missing pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,
\nwhere one can see the whole,
\ncan see what could have been,
\nbut remain frustrated at the incompleteness,
\nof what never will be.<\/p>\n
Such is today.<\/p>\n
And the great future I see from today
\nis all that keeps me.<\/p>\n
It’s all that lets me down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How quickly yesterday’s great future
became the longing incompleteness of today.
We drive onward through the regret
Of yesterday’s lost hopes,
life’s abrupt changes
scattered about in
newspaper stories of the day.<\/p>\n
The illusion takes the eye to darkness;
I amuse my heart with countless reminiscences.
This sorrow bittered by
the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kisner-collection","category-personal","category-social"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smpoetry.amigotico.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}