You Speak

"I am myself a word spoken by God. Can God speak a word 
that does not have any meaning?" Thomas Merton

You speak

and I breath the air 

that you imagine,

smile, and like the calling bird,

I rise to the sun!

But when my selfish soul

swells with self-

sent hell

you wake me, 

and expel me

from my troubled sleep.

Oh, I yearn for that day

when forgiven and

by your love

subsumed,

I'll steadfastly abide

in your constant light.

(2 February 2012)