The Unpronounceable Psalm

(Found here)

I couldn’t wrap my mouth around the vowel of your name.

Your name, a cave of blue wind that burrows and delves

endlessly, that rings off the walls of my drumming, lilting heart,

through the tiny pulsations of my wrists, the blood in my neck.

I couldn’t hold the energy of your name in my mouth

that was like trying to utter the crackle of lightning,

as if my teeth would break from its pronunciation.

I am dwarfed in the face of your magnitude,

O you whom I can’t articulate. O you of fluency

and eloquence whom I can’t fully express, my words

are only the echo of you that rings within my soul, my soul

a cave of blue wind that houses the draft of you,

the eternal vowel of you I can’t wrap my mouth around.

Lord, Lord, as close as I may gather, as close as I may say.

~Nicholas Samaras