God Talk

By Paul m. Strohm

Finally I can be totally honest-

you have been overhyped.

I have wasted my words,

you have wasted my time.

Do you hear me now,

on my kneels again?

My eyes no longer looking up

to God who made everything

raining down His love on me

Creator and His creation

separated by His eternal silence.

I have done all the talking,

pouring out a babble of fear,

pain, and heartfelt hope.

Yet, never a helpful word,

Either my God is dumb or I am deaf.

 

Paul m. Strohm is a freelance journalist working in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in HuKmag.com, the Berkeley Poets Cooperative, The Lake, WiND, and other literary outlets.  He worked at the Humanities Research Center at UT-Austin cataloging the correspondence of D.H. Lawrence.  If he had to count the number of times D. H. wrote that imaginative  line, “ Dear ____. How are you?” he would never read Lady Chatterley’s Lover again.