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MurfQ — Shock and Awe
Published: 2004-02-03 19:31:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 121; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 7
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Shock and aweFeelings hard to sort
Sometimes the truth hurts
Sometimes I feel I’d rather not know
Shock and awe
Senses begin to dull
Pain brings its own anesthetic
Wouldn’t it be easier to close my heart?
Shock and awe
Realization sets in
Pain is replaced with deep sadness
Sorrow felt and yet it is no longer about me
Shock and awe
Sorrow gives way to joy
The light is dawning from within
In the morning, shock gives way to awe
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Oi, that's powerful. "The light is dawning from within" <--- EXCELENT metaphor, describes Christ's living in us well. Nice Work!
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Thank you. I look back at this now, some months after the events that threw me into such turmoil, and I realize that the shock is pretty much gone now but the awe remains. The pain still stabs at me from time to time, but I have learned some very valuable lessons that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. And now I realize, the poem makes more sense to me now than it did when I wrote it. Funny stuff poetry is sometimes.
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Your poem is so short, but it's supercharged with emotion - to me. I really like how you ended it too. at first, i wondered what you were talking about. Then I re-read the comments above it, and it started making a lot more sense. I understand now, It's the way you feel after someone you admired walked away from their faith. It's how you feel when your good friend dies, but you know that their in heaven, or when someone who you liked moves away. It's how I felt the day after I found out that both my Grandma and my friend's mom had cancer; and that the odds were that one wouldn't make it. I'm sorry to hear that you too went through a change like this, but at the same time I encourage you that God has it in his gargantuan hands, and doesn't miss a thing.
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None of those situations are quite like what I was experiencing when I wrote this, but yet many of the same sort of elements are there. I think that's one of the things that I love about poetry. You can write about one thing and yet people can relate to it on so many different levels. I guess there are certain things that all of our very different situations have in common. But most importantly, the one thing they all have in common is that God is there.
"Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all." - Psalm 34:19
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