Thursday, July 09, 2009

In speech with You

"Master, they say that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since you make no replies, it’s 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.

The, 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 art One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream."

- C.S.Lewis -

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