Prayer
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. Then, 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, though art One forever, and I No dreamer, but thy dream.
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C.S. Lewis.
(2006)
A Sacrifice of Praise. pg. 736