Minor notes play the silence,
While I willfully walk a fantasy-
My eyes by strange shadows full,
Dim from the world outside, lowered
In some old cathedral’s calm
Where all dreams have been,
Where no human heart breaks.
From a heaven attending there comes
Catharsis, the cleansing waters of
Separation, my sorrow bow’d beneath some
God. Forgive me as I do feel you
While I languish in a pew’s peace, but I
Neither worship, nor do I foster
Festering faith.
© SXT 2022