{"id":328,"date":"2025-02-12T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T23:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2025-02-12T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T23:47:55","slug":"between_burdens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dreaminginplot.com\/MainBlog\/2025\/02\/12\/between_burdens\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Burdens"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little melancholy, but I hope something that brings peace as well.<\/em><\/p>\n

A silver fall of ash drifts on a golden breeze
\nWhile the frosty winter wind carries autumn leaves.
\nA quiet soul disturbed by the changing of the tides
\nLooks out to where the light quietly subsides.<\/p>\n

No fairies yet emerge in the dying of the day
\nNo hope yet is sparked, nor yet is borne away.
\nNo bird yet tunes its song to the fading of the light;
\nThe stillness softly creeps as the day turns into night.<\/p>\n

There cares are worn and thin, but heavy all the same
\nAnd in the growing dim they lay quiet yet and tame.
\nThough night may rouse their claws and sharpen up their fangs
\nThe twilight draws them on leaving only pangs.<\/p>\n

And so the soul may rest, between both night and day
\nAnd leave daytime cares behind and keep dark cares at bay.
\nAnd slow the moment passes, as slow as sunset shrinks
\nAnd still the wind moves in the grasses as the world pauses yet to think.<\/p>\n

Though all the weary load, will be shouldered with the night
\nThe moment eases burden and grants a brief respite.
\nBask in the twilight and leave behind the day.
\nSoon enough the sorrows will move along their way.<\/p>\n

Between Burdens<\/em> copyright \u00a9 Heather Strickler 2025 all rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little melancholy, but I hope something that brings peace as well. A silver fall of ash drifts on a golden breeze While the frosty winter wind carries autumn leaves. A quiet soul disturbed by the changing of the tides Looks out to where the light quietly subsides. 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