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.