Nuclear

It is not that he can't speak;

who created languages

but God? Nor that he won't;

to say that is to imply

malice. It is just that

he doesn't, or does so at times

when we are not listening, in

ways we have yet to recognise

as speech. We call him the dumb

God with an effrontery beyond

pardon. Whose silence so eloquent

as His? What word so explosive

as that one Palestinian

word with the endlessness of its fall-out?

(R S Thomas)