Ordinary Person

As I grow older, my distress is more with me,  

more than ripest foliage and shadows of fall, 

time and circumstance make it hard to see 

that there might be more than pain’s illegible scrawl,  

that fate promises more age to age  

beyond each day’s pale, disquieting throes, 

the aubade with its chirring cadence seeks to assuage 

my fears but I dismally cling to my lows. 

Praying for a sense of rightness to prevail  

seems offensive to the nature of things  

in a world where madness condemns with righteous voices. 

I look for hope, but I just thresh and flail,  

I wish for a naïveté that inaudibly sings  

in hope’s soothing key of blessings, purpose, and choices.  

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