New Shoes

Awakening from surgery
I just want to go back to sleep
Nurse asked how I was feeling
I couldn't seem to make a peep

Closing my eyes I swallowed hard
And tasted blood when it went down
Tummy quickly rejecting it
The nurse stood by wearing a frown

After my tummy was empty
I tried to tell her I would live
I opened my mouth tried to speak
Felt a pain I couldn't forgive

I had expected a sore throat
With a croak that was barely heard
I didn't expect all sound gone
But this is what surly occured

By that evening I could whisper
The response was a lot of "What?"
It seems that no one can hear me
Am I to be stuck in this rut

Five days later I sit weeping
Finding my voice hasn't returned
Tenants have quit talking to me
It's so frustrating I have learned

Ignored for being different
From family and friends alike
I'm treated as if a leper
Now treated as if I will bite

Walking in the shoes of the "dumb"
I don't see how I can make it
I've never liked wearing new shoes
And I don't like it now one bit

My voice is nine tenths of my job
Without it I'm ineffective
It's what pulls it all together
What makes it the place that it is

Then there's the hardest part to bear
I can't lift my voice to praise God
A garden left unattended
No seeds fertilized with His love

Doc has said my voice will return
I must bear a few weeks of this
I can say to you sincerely
My old shoes now look pretty good

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