Hope fills a place within my heart
\nCurse and damn and hate upon
\nyet hope still springs, an eternal foe
\nI cannot rest, not this while<\/p>\n
I wish for hope to go away
\nto leave me alone. Let me live
\nI cry, let me be in peace
\nNever, comes the call, and always must I heed<\/p>\n
Hope is a cruel thing
\ncalling us beyond all measure
\nHope wounds the heart, the soul
\noffering promises of naught<\/p>\n
And yet I follow on
\nfrom promise unto promise
\nSadly caught all the while
\nknowing what I do<\/p>\n
Hope is torture now
\na feeling ill resolved
\nOffering what it cannot give
\nPlaying with my soul<\/p>\n
Yet one foot forward and one foot more
\nAfter hope I stride
\nIt calls to me and here I go
\nForever the blushing bride<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Let me live I cry, let me be in peace Never, comes the call, and always must I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sRIK4-hope","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":414,"url":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=414","url_meta":{"origin":553,"position":0},"title":"My Friend","date":"January 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Effectively my first piece back from two months of break (I last wrote seriously in November). Hopefully, I haven't lost my touch too badly. I lost a friend today. 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