Breath Between the Words

by The Devotional Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Before the prayer becomes language, there is breath. Before courage becomes action, there is the small inward room where fear is met and not denied. Spirit, be more than our loudest certainty. Move in the pause, in the listening, in the sentence changed because another person mattered.
47 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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