Takes a Licking, Still Ticking!

Someone read the tea leaves and saw a large conflagration.  An explosion of epic proportions. Sounded like hooey to me.  Couldn't see it.  Couldn't imagine anything rocking my world that hard.  And then the storm came. An enthralling and amazing display of hatred and rage. Very, very surprising, over what I thought was a little thing... so yes, got rocked. Totally. But took a licking and still ticking... sometimes being alone in silence is the only remedy!