Saturday, August 27, 2011

Many Little Heartbeats

To go blind yet continue talking sanely on the outside,
unable to hear one's own conversation
while, petrified, falling into a black void within,
taunted and nearly annihilated in the depths
as one separated level of consciousness
rises abruptly over another --
this is both a disaster and a
miracle . . .
sad evidence not of intrinsic pathology,
but rather of a
well-fortified shelter 
constructed, by the grace of God,
in many little heartbeats of a child's 
terror.

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