{"id":347,"date":"2024-11-20T22:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2024-11-30T03:28:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:28:14","slug":"a-better-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/a-better-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"A Better Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;font-size: 14pt\">by Ryley Craig\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The water was crystal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And I walked atop the frozen waves<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Traveling the seven seas<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">With no destination in mind<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Except to follow the golden swans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">To the hillsides<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Painted with Lilly of the valleys<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And seek the rusting horizon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Before it is rotten<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I sing familiar tunes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The valleys echo them back to me<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In your voice<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And I know I must be close<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">To a warm welcome<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">A new beginning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">At night I float to the treeline and<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">sleep in the graying clouds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And reach my hands upward<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">To trace the face of the frowning moon<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">And ache so tragically to comfort it from afar<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">When dawn comes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I am ready<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">To journey once more<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The infinitesimal moments<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">For a better tomorrow<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ryley Craig\u00a0 The water was crystal And I walked atop the frozen waves Traveling the seven seas With no destination in mind Except to follow the golden swans To the hillsides Painted with Lilly of the valleys And seek the rusting horizon Before it is rotten I sing familiar tunes The valleys echo them <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/a-better-tomorrow\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":36,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}