Walking in Silence
When you walk in silence you can count your steps and estimate
how much nearer or further from God you are, and from The Beginning.
Once I was told that God is counting too, but all these footsteps are echoing
round his head like a migraine, and that God does not like being The End.
When you walk in silence you can count the footsteps of people
walking with you. Everyone is counting everyone’s footsteps and we
are all walking in the same direction but not all of them are walking
towards God, who just happens to be standing in the way.
When you walk in silence you can count the footsteps of God,
walking beside you, and they have a heavy silent echo
that catches the heart and the throat like the smell of burning tyres.
And the silence gives you time to notice
that His footsteps are much slower than yours.
And The End and The Beginning are much closer to Him than they are to you.
Edward Alport is a retired teacher and proud Essex Boy. He occupies his time as a poet, gardener and writer for children. He has had poetry, articles and stories published in various webzines and magazines and performed on BBC Radio and Edinburgh Fringe. He sometimes posts snarky micropoems on Twitter as @cross_mouse.
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