{"id":7454,"date":"2025-07-05T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2025-07-05T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:10:46","slug":"poem-oh-my-myopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/05\/poem-oh-my-myopia\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Oh My, Myopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a gift for systematic thinking and pattern recognition. I delight in connecting the dots between the infinitely connected aspects of the universe. Everything reminds me of everything else. I am an Olympic figure-out-erer &#8212; rank amateur status only because nobody pays me to do it. It&#8217;s been quiet a wile since I have let go of large regions of reality as beyond my pay grade. I still have directions and attitudes, large patterns discerned through my living, going into these nether regions. Awe the same, there is a generous portion of faith that I apply to what might be, a ledged abysses. This poem is a meditation on the just a position of my faith and my persistent bewilderment with the foolishness helled in such an awesome whirled.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Oh My, Myopia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Who can<br \/>\nFathom the mine of God<br \/>\nSow wanting<br \/>\nEarth and heaven as won<br \/>\nAnd only Abel too fine<br \/>\nA tsunami of ether ore quest ins<br \/>\nWading for the drum roll pleas<br \/>\nSnared a mist grays and just us<br \/>\nScouring the grate faiths of Man kind<br \/>\nAs caught up<br \/>\nIn the bottomless<br \/>\nThe works<br \/>\nHour desperately wanting<br \/>\nDaze craven<br \/>\nTaking<br \/>\nAn eternity<br \/>\nKnot seeing beyond<br \/>\nThe end<br \/>\nOf our knows<br \/>\nCalculating net prophets<br \/>\nWho gets<br \/>\nThe credit<br \/>\nBuy faith a loan<br \/>\nAs if<br \/>\nGod\u2019s accounting<br \/>\nCan be<br \/>\nUnder stood<br \/>\nHow ever may be<br \/>\nAt best<br \/>\nOn our knees<br \/>\nAs gun to ahead<br \/>\nSoully wanting<br \/>\nAt last<br \/>\nGod\u2019s will<br \/>\nAnd testament<br \/>\nThat braking point<br \/>\nA riches to rags store he<br \/>\nWear that still, small voice<br \/>\nIs beyond herd<br \/>\nOver shadowing ether<br \/>\nOar earthly site<br \/>\nIf God is fore me<br \/>\nWho can stand agin<br \/>\nAwe questions bound<br \/>\nJust a posed<br \/>\nIn the can<br \/>\nGod create a spectacle<br \/>\nSow big<br \/>\nThat fools can see agin<br \/>\nSnared in that double blind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a gift for systematic thinking and pattern recognition. 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