The footsteps padded closer

Quietly picking up the tempo

A sudden  pause hung endlessly upon the air

Just as instantly my heart was thrusted from my body

A searing pain traversing every vein in my body

Insisting God didn't  exist

Where is your  God now? They bated me

"WAITING." I answered with a smile

"I forgive you."

Escaped from my lips

Unable to move

"YOUR GOD IS DEAD!"

I sunk into peaceful silence

and believed with absolute certainty

It would  be any time now...

I woke up in a white washed room

Sunllight trickling in from a sliver of exposed  window

A nurse also swathed in white entered.

That's  quite a beating you took back there

I don't know how you managed it?

Wheres the doctor? I asked.

I'm afraid you wont be seeing him any more.

Why not?

It seems something happened.

He kept screaming down the hall

GOD IS NOT DEAD!

And hasn't been back since.

What'll happen to me?

You're going home.

Home?

Yes.

Why?

We've lost our funding.

Oh?

But this was my last chance

For what?

To prove to myself that God exists!

Well I'm sorry. I'm afraid I cant help you with that.

But since your cancers are all in remission I'm sure

You'll have many more chances.

The rest was silence permeated by padded footsteps

And a sudden pause that hung endlesslly in the air.