Who will hear our prayer,
echoing through the empty air
that divides us, an appeal
to something unseen and unseeable,
our invocation lost among nothing?
Who will hear our psalm,
the choir humbly beseeched
by a chorus reverberating with thanks
in its every deliverance before
the entreating congregation?
Who will answer our pleas,
voices searching for seraphic blessing
while some celestial body
of spiritual vitality circles —
words bouncing in the void?
Phillip Knight Scott |© 2019
Written for dVerse Poetics : “echo … echo … echo”
Often Mumbled Musings 
In the end… maybe the comfort is to hear our own voices.
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Perhaps!
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I think you answered your question. We could talking to one another instead maybe 🙂
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Indeed!
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Prayer can sometimes feel like a one way street, or our voice in the wilderness echoing off canyon walls, heard by no one, can be a downer.
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Very smooth flow down the page even as it asks those timeless questions. One of my mentors talks about “Jesus with skin” and that may be where you find your listening ear…
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Great advice!
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🙂 Thank you. She just happens to be one of them.
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If all is one, all is connected then all is heard always.
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There is a lovely reverent cadence in your words.
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Thanks, Linda!
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Timeless questions–and I guess how you answer depends on your beliefs. Thank you for echoing with me!
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Thanks!
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Nice sound. I especially liked the sound of the rhyme between ‘appeal’ and ‘unseeable’.
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Thanks, Frank!
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Humans are spiritual creatures searching for the answer to this question that echoes in our souls. I believe Someone hears and cares… but his timing and methods are beyond us. A thought-provoking write!
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Our spiritual side likes to talk and listen.
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Who indeed? As Jane said, we must help ourselves rather than waiting for a higher power to make things right. (K)
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Indeed!
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A beautiful poem that answers itself.
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