Namesake

I’m sure if god listens
He knows her voice
Has heard it stationed ‘cross
The manyfold map of miracles
Left here on earth
A constellation that called her name
In despairing hours
Only to be answered elsewhere
By this faithless imposter
Namesake

I’m sure if god listens
He has heard in my vows of silence
Her familiar insistence
To go it alone
And yet if I listen
I still hear her calling
In the church of humanity
She has left behind
Her absence, an answer
To announce to our father
“I’m home”