C.S. Lewis once said that the prayer preceding all prayers is “May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.” In the following poem, entitled “Prayer,” Lewis peeks into what prayer looks like.
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, thou are One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream.
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