{"id":4622,"date":"2015-12-26T16:13:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T21:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/tomzampino\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2015-12-26T16:13:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T21:13:13","slug":"can-you-still-hear-me-amid-the-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tomzampino\/2015\/12\/can-you-still-hear-me-amid-the-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Still Hear Me Amid The Chaos?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Sea.Man\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Has My Voice Yet Been Displaced?<\/b><\/p>\n

\n

Maturity much too quickly descends into brutality,<\/p>\n

As time, that eternal contender,<\/p>\n

Finally lays claim to its natural advantage.<\/p>\n

All pretense, at last, being dropped,<\/p>\n

I come too late to appreciate the mismatch.<\/p>\n

To understand that the ceaseless ravages,<\/p>\n

Won\u2019t \u2013 with any certainty \u2013 be reversed.<\/p>\n

Still, yet one more step in front of another,<\/p>\n

Even if each one proceeding is slower,<\/p>\n

More deliberate, than the one before.<\/p>\n

And, as the physical seeps away,<\/p>\n

Ever more steadily,<\/p>\n

And the mind follows in lockstep,<\/p>\n

Right behind,<\/p>\n

I begrudgingly test whether my voice<\/p>\n

Has yet been silenced,<\/p>\n

And my hands have yet been stilled.<\/p>\n

With hand stiffly clutching at hand,<\/p>\n

And fingers slowly inter-laced,<\/p>\n

I plea. I shout. I shriek.<\/p>\n

Seeking to reach your inclined ear,<\/p>\n

And to take comfort in your patient touch.<\/p>\n

Yet in the silence of my room,<\/p>\n

I am left, for a time, to wonder:<\/p>\n

Can you still hear me amid the chaos?<\/p>\n

As faith and doubt battle on, right beside me.<\/p>\n

\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Peace<\/p>\n

Image Credit: Pixabay.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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