Meeting for Worship Among Friends

Persons entered silence expectantly

and waited.  Having heard God before,

each knew it could happen again here and

now, though no one knew how another heard,

experienced or translated silence

and gathering.  Expectance’s power

like electric current magnified by

building up in waiting, in silence, in

apprehension, in love, radiated

around and through the coughing and squirming

imperfect people who know enough to

gather, greet, open, and then wait and see.

Still at Manor Care of Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital--

writing to Mary's Midweek Motif Prompt at Poets United.

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