the familiar way we used to speak

God
you’re here
but there is such a dullness
between you and me

could be an unmoving field
I put there myself
even
unknowing
then to wake to it
and wonder how the barrier
got there

maybe it’s mortality
maybe it’s greed
I’m not sure I know

maybe it’s difference
as in
I’ll come over to you when it’s easy
when the way is lit

thy word
is a lamp
I’ve heard
and are the thees and thous allowed
the ironic use of you
we have let go

the intimate
the way one would say
and has
said
how do I love thee

thou dost prepare
and I should let thee
love
allowing that thou
loves

for creation’s thine
and love's
and so is
mine

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it used to be that thee was the close way to say you, which is why thee was used in making the Authorized Version and in language overall; ironically, we think of thee and thou and thine as a formal way if at all, and we really don’t, to write and talk and such

references to the Old Testament, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shakespeare allusion in the photo

photo by Landon Parenteau on Unsplash 
Aspen Trees Growing in Saskatchewan Summer [given title]