His One perfect response

 His One perfect response                                                                      

Any question asked of God

is an implicit demand for an answer.

After a lifetime (to my dismay)

of such implications, I am beginning now

to hear (by His grace) the one answer

which has always been there – His silence;

(wherein only real things are exchanged

and wherein God alone is real).

I took a silent, invisible God

to be distant, unapproachable

while He’s been faithfully

answering me all along

in a Voice – because it is so unlike mine –

I’ve had not the ears to hear.

Now I might grasp a bit more His admonition –

Love doesn’t ask.  Because Oneness hasn’t a tongue.

O child of God, Love is silent, benevolent,

His One and only perfect response.