Word Games

Is he out there? He would be a source:
When he spoke, things were.
And yet he was -- though everything's a word,
It's all his word, and he is not a word.
Then what's the difference between words
And things? (Our words if this is true
Are pale reflections of these other words
Which rest on that which only speaks
And is not spoken, though it is referred
-- Though it is preferred.)

God is alone and God is one -- alone
Since nothing can compare to him, which means
There is no quality in things which things
Ascribe to God -- if things are words
They have no meaning which could mean
Their God. And God is one. What is
This singularity? Not the unity
Of things. If God is one as they are one
Then he is not alone -- but then
If he's alone, how can he be one?
His solitary nature must itself
Compose his unity. But wherefore
All this talk? How can words express
The meaning of the one who spoke
And made all things that speak? It's idle
Talk to mention qualities, to seek beyond these things
For what is not a thing. Only a residue of glory
Can accrue to the impossible, unthinkable --
The glory of things possible and thought.
So let us praise his work, upon which
We agree or disagree. To worship God
Is loving what he's made, a love that can be made
To speak -- when it is spoken to.