2 Voices In A Quiet Night Poem by gina prettybrowneyes

a tiny voice
(in a not so tiny night)

“er…hello? ”

SILENCE
(as expansive as the darkness of night)

a braver voice
(in a night where brave knights fly)

“anybody out there? anybody at all?
for I’ve heard tell of a
God
a Yahweh
Allah, Gaia
a Higher Power
an Omnipotent Force
and I’d like to know what’s out there”

I AM
(heard in places with no ears attached)

“you are what? ”

I AM THE BEGINNING & THE END
CREATOR & DESTROYER
I KNOW ALL & SEE ALL
I AM IN EVERY TEAR DROP
& EVERY LAUGH;
IN EVERY HEART & MIND
I HAVE BEEN, AM, & WILL BE FOR EVER MORE
CALL ME WHAT YOU WILL,
I AM I

…
a voice begins, falters
trying to reach out into the great wilderness of sky
looking for this “I”
and what name shall be given?

then, with sudden clarity,
“I understand
you are who you are…

…for 2, ooo years past for 2,000 years further
humans questioning and proclaiming and praising
and ever wondering
because that is how we survive
we have faith in something larger than ourselves and
we persist.
we cling to our Bibles, Korans, Torahs, our old words
as life rafts in a sea of lost souls
we say our God is greater than another’s
we kill for our faith

but know I know
call it what we may, there is only one truth
there is no God
Allah
Yahweh
or Gaia
there is only
that 2nd voice in a quiet night
that elusive, immense, & powerful
“I AM I”
and I shall question no longer

a satisfied voice
(in a night that no longer seems so dark)

PEACE ON EARTH
(spoken in a sleepy, contented whisper; spoken
in places no human hearts beat,
in places no footprints lie:
and no eyes search the night…)