edging away from the narthex as if never there

they spoke in hushed whispers that couldn’t help but carry words across divides

so much for divinity so much for safe or wise or

set free

disappearing people were contagious and leaving was a reason to dissect lives

never belonging to them really

if they’d offered a direct

word dismantling worry disentangling fear by proximity and

sincerity

it would have served to smooth down the edges it could’ve spread thin anxiety so as to prove

a communion was taking place simliar

no the same to

what was intended in this orchestration of righteousness

no voice louder than the one inside silence

from other speaks volumes to myth of reconciliations