"Prayer"
C. S. Lewis
Master, they say that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since you make no replies, it’s all a dream
--One talker aping two.
They are half right, but not as they
Imagine; rather, I
Seek in myself the things I meant to say,
And lo! The wells are dry.
Then, seeing me empty, you forsake
The Listener’s role, and through
My dead lips breath and into utterance wake
The thoughts I never knew.
And thus you neither need reply
Nor can; thus, while we seem
Two talking, thou art One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream.
C. S. Lewis, Poems, p. 122-123
Brian G. Hedges | Pastor & Author
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