Call & Response
O Darling! O Soul! How can my heart believe this?
I never guessed I would reach you!
~ Rumi
There is always something
we cannot see—
yet feel,
yet sense
just beyond the edge
of our touch.
Call and response
move through everything—
through spiritual practice,
through the physical world,
through the quiet exchanges
between what is seen
and what remains unseen.
The call—prayer—
is a reaching toward
what we cannot fully grasp.
The response—meditation—
is the soft receiving,
the listening
for what does not arrive in form,
but in feeling.
Even in the language
of electromagnetics,
what we send out
draws something back—
an answering presence,
invisible, yet real.
The photographer, too,
works within this mystery.
The act of seeing is a call.
The pressing of the shutter,
a moment of felt response.
And in that exchange,
something appears—
not only what is seen,
but what shimmers
at its edges.
Beauty, then,
is not just what we behold,
but what it points toward—
the quiet presence
of all we cannot see,
and yet, somehow,
know.
