{"id":433,"date":"2023-12-08T19:38:42","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.illinoisstate.edu\/euphemism\/19-1\/?page_id=433"},"modified":"2023-12-08T19:39:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:39:46","slug":"whimper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/whimper\/","title":{"rendered":"Whimper!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"126\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"126\">\n<h5>Nicholaus Albrecht<\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I climb those steps to see this god on high.<br \/>\nSeeing is believing but am I blind?<br \/>\nProstrate before this altar made of stone,<br \/>\nsince blessings cold now that this fever broke.<br \/>\nJihad betwixt this \u201cgod\u201d and yonder Gods-<br \/>\nUnstopping Force. All Unmoved Objects sob.<br \/>\nThese gods insane, now gods of lasting Id,<br \/>\ngods whose zealots\u2019 egos fulfillment wish.<br \/>\nRite and Theory clothed in no differed skin.<br \/>\nRite and Theory clothed in no differed sin.<br \/>\nBlinded hands grope benzo-blackened blades,<br \/>\ngiving as gift the gutter to the grave.<br \/>\nIn chambered echoes, grace and blasphemies<br \/>\nprofess the life not lived at all as freed.<br \/>\nIf choice is worthy only to rebuke,<br \/>\nwhy should I humble my own path to truth?<br \/>\nGasp or grasp, none still my Fate to turn<br \/>\nto make my way back to forsaken Earth.<br \/>\nEnlightenment has known no bitter end<br \/>\nwhimpered and dissected by \u201cthe bless\u00e8d\u201d.<br \/>\nA simple truth, hard with faithfulness wrest:<br \/>\nOne man\u2019s god is another man\u2019s madness.<br \/>\nThe only test left me that comes to pass,<br \/>\nthese faithless moving mountains in my path.<br \/>\n&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;<em>This is the way that it ends\u2026<\/em><br \/>\n&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;&emsp;<em>This is the way that it ends\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholaus Albrecht I climb those steps to see this god on high. Seeing is believing but am I blind? Prostrate before this altar made of stone, since blessings cold now that this fever broke. Jihad betwixt this \u201cgod\u201d and yonder Gods- Unstopping Force. All Unmoved Objects sob. These gods insane, now gods of lasting Id, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/poetry\/whimper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whimper!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-433","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/433\/revisions\/436"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/19-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}