Friday, June 26, 2020

Your tomblike silence

Your tomblike silence                                                                                 

I’ve adjusted my theories about You,
at times, but I’ve held firmly onto them.

Whether they be right or wrong,
I don’t know what I’m talking about.

I know You not at all; You know my every sin.
You are ever clothed in the divine mystery;

I am naked and ashamed, afraid
to be in the same room with You,

cooped up in Your tomblike silence.
I keep up this chatter to escape

Your soundless, fearsome intimacy.   
When I run out of questions

I’ll be totally at Your mercy, just as I am now
but with no words with which to pretend otherwise.

O child of God, the truth you are seeking
will never be on your side.

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