I was sitting in church
Reading a Bukowski
When I heard
The sound of her black heels
Silencing all divinity
Leaking through the church's walls.
She walked towards me
As she always did
Then
She stopped for a moment
And looked at the cross.
I saw God in her eyes
While she walked towards Him
And kneeled
The way she always did
To tell me her darkest sins.
I waited for her
Her Rosary seemed endless.
She drew the sign of the Cross
And got up.
Should I go to her?
She was walking towards the door.
Should I go to her?
She opened the door.
"Karen!"
But the door has already closed on me
Leaving me in hell
As she took Heaven away.




- LynnAA