You Open Up Within Me A Silence

you open up within me a silence
bare and stark like sand

everything in me searching like a child lost
then held, deeper than hands can touch

Photo: Emilmar Martínez rscj
Provincia de Venezuela

you open up within me a silence
blooming like a Christmas cactus

everything in me ranting and raving like a mistress spurned
then calmed, deeper than words can touch


In quietness and confidence will be your strength (Isaiah 30:15 LB).

Annice Callahan, RSCJ
December 8, 2003