Approaching God
    like an animal on nine legs
    with one life.
One life to get as close as you dare
                                         as close as you dream.
Dare you dream to get close enough
                                                               to be heard?

You are heard.
You are regarded by an unseen eye with untamed love.

But you don't know it.

Skittish animal spirit
              covered with ears, soft and shaped like
                    cupped palms with furry finger tips,

You hear so much that you don't know what you hear.
                 Death rattles, birth cries, howls of abandonment, laughter.

You hear God, but is God saying love?

Not a single sound has been tamed.

The silence has not been tamed.