We learn the power of our words
Is to learn the power of silence
We speak our prayers and hope to purge
Our hearts of all the violence
God needs no connecting devices
No internet, phone or letter
Though we speak 10,000 languages
Sitting in silence would be better
If it is language that makes us human
One half of language is to listen
Though silence can exist without speech
Speech without silence…something is missing
To pray is to listen to the unspoken
Only God’s speech in Creation
May the calm and the quiet be unbroken
Hearing God’s true syncopation
I trust answers that come in the silence
Like listening for a familiar song with words so sweet
Out of my cage of mortal consciousness
“Closer is He than breathing…nearer than hands and feet.” *
Apr 11, 2016
Apr 11, 2016 at 11:32 AM UTC
We learn the power of our words
Is to learn the power of silence
We speak our prayers and hope to purge
Our hearts of all the violence
God needs no connecting devices
No internet, phone or letter
Though we speak 10,000 languages
Sitting in silence would be better
If it is language that makes us human
One half of language is to listen
Though silence can exist without speech
Speech without silence…something is missing
To pray is to listen to the unspoken
Only God’s speech in Creation
May the calm and the quiet be unbroken
Hearing God’s true syncopation
I trust answers that come in the silence
Like listening for a familiar song with words so sweet
Out of my cage of mortal consciousness
“Closer is He than breathing…nearer than hands and feet.” *
*Alfred Lord Tennyson's last line inspired this
