God Whispers

Poem by Tim Bete, OCDS

When I told you
My love was so great
that I wanted to spend
eternity with you,
I did not mean an eternity
at some far-off time,
as if eternity’s clock
was wound by your death.

Eternity began the day
I conceived your soul.

On that day,
I blossomed within you,
long before your birth,
long before you first saw the world.

Yet you forget our eternity
is well underway,
squandering our time
as you imagine me
in some far-off place,
aloof and hidden.

From your conception
no time will ever separate us,
not a second of your earthly life
or thereafter.

You always have been
and always will be
Mine.