The Sound of Stillness

from How to Love this Woman by Therese FitzMaurice & Tim Lane

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sound of stillness

i used to speak to god
but i dressed him
in a poet’s skin
covered his wisdom
with golden strands
of untold stories.

i imagined i was the story
teller, running my fingers
through his hair to unearth
images i couldn’t paint
(mining precious minerals
to construct divine metaphors)

then a nightingale sang
and stained a rose red
in the tree of my lungs,
but when i went to speak
the petals got stuck in my throat

i lived in silence for years.

i used to speak to god
but i dressed her in a wise
woman’s cloak. i studied
her heavenly eyes
and glimpsed my reflection
in a tranquil pool of stillness.

i imagined i was her apprentice
training for some future sermon,
bending my voice toward
the sound of service.

i lived with the anxiety of my expectations for years.

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from How to Love this Woman, released February 6, 2016

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