{"id":4934,"date":"2013-03-22T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T22:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=4934"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"demon-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/demon-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Demon Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>By: Allan Douglas &#8211; Copyright 05\/03\/88<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3676\/10141205856_bc55af2336_o_d.jpg\" alt=\"angel demon poetry\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Who is he;<br \/>\nangel of salvation,<br \/>\nor angel of death?<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s spent his whole life<br \/>\nas defender of the defenseless,<br \/>\nchampion of the downtrodden,<br \/>\ncrusader against injustice.<\/p>\n<p>He is revered by his subjects.<br \/>\nThey cheer when he rides by.<br \/>\nAnd yet, when he is alone,<br \/>\nseparated and isolated by the walls of his room,<br \/>\nit is he who becomes the Dark Lord.<br \/>\nHe is the demon from whom he has defended them for so long.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Each night the battle for supremacy rages on.<br \/>\nEach night the victor rises with a narrower margin.<br \/>\nHe knows the night will come when there is no victor.<br \/>\nEach alter ego will quell the other<br \/>\nand he will cease to exist.<\/p>\n<p>He will doubtless be acclaimed a martyr<br \/>\nfor having met his doom<br \/>\nat the hands of some unnamed demon.<br \/>\nThey will tell their tales, sing his praises,<br \/>\nand raise statues in his honor.<\/p>\n<p>Yet they will never know the extent<br \/>\nof the evil that harbored among them.<br \/>\nNever know how many times<br \/>\nthey looked into the face of death<br \/>\nand called it compassion.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>* * * * *<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Allan Douglas &ndash; Copyright 05\/03\/88 Who is he; angel of salvation, or angel of death? He&rsquo;s spent his whole life as defender of the defenseless, champion of the downtrodden, crusader against injustice. He is revered by his subjects. They cheer when he rides by. And yet, when he is alone, separated and isolated by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/demon-among-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Demon Among Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-4934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21558,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4934\/revisions\/21558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}