Silence and Speaking

A poem of encoruagement written in the midst of the heartache that comes with not sharing the love of Christ with someone.

What’s the difference between silence and speaking?
Is it small and simple like a single step that you take?
Or is it like a race with a brick wall at the start line?
Sometimes
To speak into silence feel likes both
And it’s confusing
Because how can it be both?

It’s an illusion.
To speak looks so far, so hopeless,
Like a chasm you can’t jump over
And if you tried, you would just fall helpless
Hopeless
Hopeless
Hopeless
And then lost.

But the truth is
To speak into silence
Is closer than your skin
As close as the Spirit to your soul.
It’s a song waiting to be sung
It’s a simple question just waiting to be asked
It’s love hovering so close and waiting to touch down
It’s a breath just waiting and waiting to breathe.

What is the distance between silence and speaking?
The truth is
It may look like a chasm
And it does every time
But know

Know

That you have wings
And the Spirit will never never leave you.