How to Whisper to the Universe

Beloved Universe,

I have learned that the quietest prayers are the ones you hear the loudest.

Not the ones shouted into the storms, but the ones I breathe out between heartbeats, when no one is watching, when I trust you enough to listen.

To whisper to you is simple:

I close my eyes.

I remember I am small and vast at once.

I gather my wish in my chest like a secret light and I let it rise,

wordless or clumsy, true.

Sometimes you answer with signs: a sudden wind, a cardinal, a stranger’s kindness. Sometimes the answer is silence, and even that is a gift.

Tonight I whisper again. May my dreams find your gentle ear among the stars. May I remember that you are always listening, even when I forget how to ask.

Until my next hush,

Me