{"id":2794,"date":"2024-01-03T15:57:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2024-01-03T15:57:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T23:57:37","slug":"innocents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegillard.com\/erleichda\/2024\/01\/03\/innocents\/","title":{"rendered":"Innocents"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>
\n <\/p>\n

Innocents<\/strong><\/p>\n

So many Innocents
\nenter this Place
\nof Skin and Ribs
\nand Faces,<\/p>\n

being Taught
\nTheir Task is
\nto diligently
\nassemble
\na Life of
\nthe Best
\nPossible Parts,
\nwith Skill and
\nCharacter,
\npolished with
\nHard Work
\nand Rewarded with
\nSilver Tokens
\nof Success.<\/p>\n

So many Innocents
\nmeasure
\ntheir Images<\/p>\n

in the Early Morning
\nMirror
\nand it seems
\nto Them
\nTheir Sum
\nfalls Short,<\/p>\n

and They\u2019ll need
\nto scramble
\nto find more
\nParts,
\nWork harder,
\nPolish more vigorously.<\/p>\n

But what if
\nthat Image
\nin the Mirror
\nis just a
\nFalse Shadow,
\ncast by a flickering Film
\nproduced by
\na Crew of Fools,
\nmost well-meaning,
\nsome not so much.<\/p>\n

What if All of Us
\nInnocents
\nhave been Taught
\nthe Wrong Tasks,<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

We\u2019re Really
\nHere as
\nBeings made of
\nLight,<\/p>\n

meant to
\noverwhelm those
\nFlickering Films with
\nHappy Acts
\nand Endings
\ncreated by Crews
\nfrom the Union of
\nLove and Light and Laughter.<\/p>\n

(Photo by Amir Geshani; UnSplash)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Innocents So many Innocents enter this Place of Skin and Ribs and Faces, being Taught Their Task is to diligently assemble a Life of the Best Possible Parts, with Skill and Character, polished with Hard Work and Rewarded with Silver Tokens of Success. So many Innocents measure their Images in the Early Morning Mirror […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t