Absent Sound

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God lives in silence, Heaven 
too far from atmosphere for sound 
to vibrate absent oxygen, separate causes 
of reverence and calm coincidental 

to the environment of a mute God. 
Which explains why prayers 
are simpler said than answered 
and we so seldom hear our Lord: 

pleadings stop at the edge of space, 
never reaching outer, untraceable 
amounts of CO₂ the only evidence 
we hoped embrace to supplicate. 

All things are possible with Eloi, 
so insisting science and the physicality 
of universes on Divinity may be 
irreverently disinclined to grace. 

But directed by the scientific method, 
there is evidence, as in the absence 
of voice or melody or any sound resounding 
in the limitless impressiveness of space. 

That evidence is the same 
whether Buddha, Allah, Zeus: 
Nothing. Neither door closing 
nor engine of God’s calamity

turning over. How can we know 
the angel song, the voice of God, 
when every noise goes deaf in that 
vacuum between us and Heaven?