! On His Deafness Poem by Michael Shepherd
! On His Deafness
'Speak up - no need to shout -I'm not THAT deaf! '
- do I have real reason to complain,
if years of partial listening have brought
now partial hearing in their fateful train?
O Milton - isn't it curious: the blind
evoke our instant feelings of compassion -
while deafness calls some idiot state to mind,
evoking, far from pity - irritation?
Those saintly mystics would just praise their God
that He, to speed their simple saintliness,
brings outer deafness so that inner Word
in cloistered silence, bring a greater bliss...
So may I bear affliction in good part
and hope to hear the louder in the heart.
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4/23/2024 2:45:20 AM # 1.0.0.1119
A good meditation on an affliction. I had 20% hearing in my left ear for over a year - and then it shot back up in one strange moment almost to to 85%. It is irritating and humiliating - sometimes you just want to be off along so you; lre not saying WHAT all the time.