The Wrecking Ball

 As I pondered yesterday's post, and considered the incessant shouting and noise assaulting us from so many directions, the following came to me.

The Wrecking Ball

Robert Withers

 

The louder we shout the less we hear.

 

The louder the noise the more damage to our ears.

 

When noise is great, truth and reason are lost.

 

First we couldn’t live without simple sound – fed to us wherever we were.

 

Now we can’t live without increasing decibels.

 

Our minds are destroyed by thundering wrecking balls.

 

Rubble surrounds us.

 

Beauty is maligned. Truth is traduced. Love is turned to lust.

 

Silence frightens us.

 

Thought terrifies us.

 

Conversation unnerves us.

 

We are crazed.

 

No society can reject the image of God with impunity.