1103
Silence speak so I may hear your voice
In words that resonate within my heart,
Stir up my mind and make my soul rejoice.
Let silence speak.
Mere language breeds confusion from the start
Insisting it is Truth and any choice
Is best left up to others who have art
And education on their side, where moist
Lips and oily tongues obscure the part
Which I would hear, but cannot for the noise.
Let silence speak.
Brian Hick January 2012
©copyright Sally Hick 24.1.24
1022
Psalm
You have blessed me this day
You have moved me on
To a place I had not expected.
When I despaired and was ready to give up
You waited, supported, then gave me the word
Which touched my soul.
A word so quiet I did not hear it
A word so indistinct it had no meaning
A word which pierced my soul
Without pain or comprehension.
A word which changed my heart
And then my mind
So now I am renewed
My body ready for the task
The Word has set before me.
Brian Hick September 2011
©copyright Sally Hick 24.10.23
954
Speak in the gaps between the words
Call to me from the silent skies
Sing from the midst of unseen birds
Bid me wake as the darkness flies
So that my heart may come to find
In all the turmoil of the day
A peaceful and reflective mind
To carry me along the Way.
(to Tallis Canon)
Brian Hick june 2011
©copyright Sally Hick 30.6.23
941
Where are you in all these words
Spilling out to fill the time
With little sense of the sublime
And even less of what occurs
Between the spaces and the joy
Of silence. Oh, when will they pause
To let a heart which here adours
The unspoken and unthought, enjoy
The richness that does not demand
An explanation or a fact,
Contented simply to react
To your spirit's soft command;
Because I need a sacred space
Unconfused by text or deeds,
Unconscious of human needs
Or even of specific place
But one where I can listen to
Your voice singing from the earth
Your music antheming the worth
Of everything that's born anew.
Brian Hick May 2011
©copyright Sally Hick 24.5.23
932
Connect
Above my head two lines zoom into space
Like laser beams across eternity;
Where these lines of congruence embrace
I stand entire, a perfect tiny me
Centre of the universe, the one
Around whom everything that is revolves;
But looking up, I see the lines have grown
Ever wider until all dissolves
Far beyond the limits of my mind.
How strange that I can know that even there,
Immense and enigmatic, I can find
A Love that penetrates my heart, to share
With all I meet, despite my selfish whims
And all the limitations that life brings.
Brian Hick April 2011
©copyright Sally Hick 5.5.23
915
I came to you for simple understanding
In friendship, rather than imposed command;
I hoped that you would follow in my footsteps
To love as I loved, trying to understand
How even those who hated you had value
And no one was beyond redemptive love.
But now it seems I might have been too hopeful
For humankind, where Peace, that gentle dove,
Can only be assured by blooded weapons
And violence precedes the enforced calm.
The footsteps that I left seem to lie empty
With few there seeking for insight or balm,
While masses flock to massacre the innocent,
Slaughtering, to gain a martyr's palm.
Brian Hick March 2011
©copyright Sally Hick 27.3.23
