When God gave out the talents,<\/p>\n
no one really cared,<\/p>\n
for then we were one<\/em> people<\/p>\n and everything was shared.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When God dispensed desires,<\/p>\n all fell into dust.<\/p>\n Everyone had different wants,<\/p>\n and we forgot to trust.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And while this holy act<\/p>\n brought trials to us all,<\/p>\n I have a certain grievance<\/p>\n that I would like to call.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My talents are a pleasure,<\/p>\n I like them quite a bit:<\/p>\n I’m smart, I learn nonstop<\/p>\n I don’t want to pitch a fit…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But my desires just don’t match<\/p>\n the talents that God gave.<\/p>\n The things that I can do, you see,<\/p>\n are not the things I crave.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Music! Song! to sing aloud<\/p>\n with the power of the sea!<\/p>\n Yet I open up my mouth<\/p>\n and a squalling whine crawls free.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Perhaps, I think, my pipes won’t do,<\/p>\n but thunder I will <\/em>bring.<\/p>\n I’ll just use an instrument<\/p>\n if my voice won’t sing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alas, my friend, ’tis all for naught,<\/p>\n piano, strings, or flute.<\/p>\n I miss a beat or fingers slip,<\/p>\n and, once again, I’m mute.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So, God on High, if you can hear<\/p>\n this flimsy little rhyme,<\/p>\n Gift me with a voice like rain!<\/p>\n It wouldn’t cost a dime.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My songbird’s heart is not content<\/p>\n confined by vocal folds.<\/p>\n It needs to fly, release the songs<\/p>\n and brightness that it holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When God gave out the talents, no one really cared, for then we were one people and everything was shared. When God dispensed desires, all fell into dust. Everyone had different wants, and we forgot to trust. And while this holy act brought…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32518,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32427\/revisions\/32518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}