C S Lewis, “No dreamer, but thy dream.”

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Master, they say that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since you make no replies, it's all a dream
–One talker aping two.

They are half right, but not as they
Imagine; rather, I
Seek in myself the things I meant to say
And lo! the wells are dry.

Then, seeing me empty, you forsake
The Listener's role, and through
My dead lips breathe and into utterance wake
The thoughts I never knew.

And thus you neither need reply
Nor can;thus, while we seem
Two talking, thou art One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream

C.S.Lewis, quoted in James H Trott, A Sacrifice of Praise, (Nashville: Cumberland House, 1999), page 735.

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