Prayer

C.S. Lewis


Master, they say that when I seem

To be in speech with you,

Since you make no replies, its 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 breathe and into utterance wake

The thoughts I never knew.

And thus you neither need reply

Nor can; thus, while we seem

Two talking, Thou are One forever, and I

No dreamer, but thy dream.


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