Is God In the Marshes?, by Julie Rutherford

Is God In the Marshes?

On the marshes,
in the darkness,
before,
                    dawn breaks
a bird takes to flight,
a cock crows,
an owl calls out
water gently,
                                                            laps,
sounds,
                    echo
                                                                                                                        in the silence
reverberate,
                                                            against each other
in this empty place   someone, asked me, if I felt God there,
why there?
why not here, in my lounge
or,
        in the monastery on the Downs
God! Ask another..
or ask God if she is here, or there
                                                                                                        or wherever,   you’ ll hear silence..
and, maybe in that silence
a cock will crow
or an owl,
                                                            might call out

poems.one - Julie Rutherford

Julie Rutherford