Miracle

with such imperfect tools

as sounds and letters

with our varied histories

and our fumbo\ling ineptitudes

with our need to be right

and to be praised

with our desire to say

the unsayable

with our hidden agendas

and most sincere desires

with our half mastery

of vocabulary and syntax

with our predilections to speak

rather than to listen

we yet transmit meaning

one way or another.