Unaccented
       

God's first language is silence.
His second, heat.
He learned mercy next,
though he still has trouble with the pronunciations.
Then Aramaic, Igbo, Old High German.
God is a completist,
proud to understand every earthly prayer.
But if you've studied languages, you know
comprehension's the easy part.
Much harder to say something back
without using
your mother tongue.

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