The Words I Pray, The Ones I Don’t

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I fold my hands

In prayer

A need so

Real it cuts

Me in two

Seeing one

You look too

For guidance

In faith

Dealing with heartbreaking

Pain

Is not an easy

Thing to do

It’s a powerful

Reminder how

Human we are.

But still I pray

Words I speak

But perhaps it’s

The Words

That are left

Unspoken that

Speak the most.

I’ve learned

To read

Cues

In all my years

The truth that

Is not always spoken

But is heard

The strongest of us

Are brought to

Our knees with

Questions

That much I believe.

Now I sit here

Simply trying to

Express a pain

That perhaps words

Cannot explain

But I try anyway

Because really

I don’t know

What else to

Say.

(C) Michelle R Kidwell

December.05.2021