A Poem about "the still small voice"

Sheer Silence

(a poem based on I Kings 19)

You come to me hiding in

your cave

What message do you expect-

A shaking of the earth

A fire that consumes

A wind that blows

away all fears?

O Elijah, you expect too much

and too little

You must learn to wait

on me

in a time of

un-expectation

And now you wonder about

this silence

And you think it is nothing

compared to

wind, flame, and thunder

But listen, O seeker

of truth

I am found in the silence

This stillness that

seems to be nothing

is full of the

something of my

presence

You must learn to wait

at the edge of

your cave of knowing

I will speak not in words

but in moments

of a faith that

trusts in  the

whisper of a

truth that is

below and beyond sound

It is the sound of silence

(Jody Seymour-Lent 2018)