This parable is about prayer. Here is a poem written by C.S. Lewis titled "Prayer" and published in 1964 in a book called Poems.
Master, they say that when I seem
To be in speech with you,
Since you make no replies, it's all a dream
-- One talker aping two.
They are half right, but not as they
Imagine; rather, I
Seek in myself the things I meant to say,
And lo! the wells are dry.
Then, seeing me empty, you forsake
The Listener's role, and through
My dead lips breathe and into utterance wake
The thoughts I never knew.
And thus you neither need reply
Nor can; thus, while we seem
Two talking, thou art One forever, and I
No dreamer, but thy dream.
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