{"id":7936,"date":"2025-05-31T18:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T22:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/?p=7936"},"modified":"2025-06-06T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T21:33:26","slug":"my-brothers-keeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/?p=7936","title":{"rendered":"My Brother\u2019s Keeper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:135px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center p1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">My Brother\u2019s Keeper<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">I can no longer endure his misery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">His fruitless cries for help or water<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or at the phantoms in his mind<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Now go unheeded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot attend him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">His need drains me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">I must abandon moral values<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">(Perhaps even my ethics,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">A far more serious case),<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">For my own sake<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">And I turn away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">His delirium becomes my delirium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">And his troubled dreams<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Haunt my nights,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">Becoming mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:48px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">It shocks me to find myself&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">The source of my own pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">I am helpless to relieve his suffering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\">So I am left to endure my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-3eeaf594e2737b5f11578ec106f1910a wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\">Click here to return Home<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Brother\u2019s Keeper I can no longer endure his misery. His fruitless cries for help or water Or at the phantoms in his mind Now go unheeded.&nbsp; I cannot attend him. His need drains me. I must abandon moral values (Perhaps even my ethics, A far more serious case), For my own sake And I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213552057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38787,9802],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-poetry","category-my-work"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdzkeJ-240","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213552057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8071,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7936\/revisions\/8071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pallimpsest.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}