{"id":3210,"date":"2022-12-27T05:41:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T12:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:04","slug":"solace-does-not-come-in-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2022\/12\/27\/solace-does-not-come-in-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"Solace does not come in darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_3211\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Harvey-IMG_8112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Harvey-IMG_8112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"674\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3211\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harvey outside our place at 554 W. 42nd Street.<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Solace does not come in darkness<br \/>\nIt gives sway to an unspeakable circumstance<br \/>\nmoving in the shadows of the night.<\/p>\n<p>3 a.m., is dark and silent,<br \/>\na sense of calm settles over the land,<br \/>\nseemingly for everyone but you.<\/p>\n<p>You sit and listen to the labored breathing of your dying cat<br \/>\nas you watch the clock slowly tick time until the holidays are over<br \/>\nand your vet can perform a mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Too weak to give you a kiss<br \/>\nhe tilts his head for another kiss on the head<br \/>\nand purrs as he rests his frail body on the cool living room floor<\/p>\n<p>There is no one to lend a shoulder to lean your head upon in these desolate hours<br \/>\nthe cold windows, with edges touched by frost<br \/>\nprovide no warmth, no comfort from the impending demise.<\/p>\n<p>The sweet sound of silence you are accustomed to no longer soothes the soul<br \/>\nas the scythe of death slowly, silently sways in the distance,<br \/>\nawaiting its moment to snuff the remaining graceful embers of feline life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[71,112,173,284,285],"class_list":["post-3210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-cats","tag-death","tag-harvey","tag-poem","tag-poetry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3548,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3210\/revisions\/3548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}