Hallowed Be Your Name

“I’m down on my knees and begging you please to ease my sorrow,” I yelled in the cathedral. “Give me wings and make me fearless,” I begged the silent room. “I’m exhausted,” I breathed attempting to start a conversation with the air.
“You’re also smelly, in dire need of a shower and I’m sure food would be welcomed,” she smiled as my belly answered before I could. “You know He listens,” she nonchalantly said pointing to the ceiling with a knowing smile plastered to her lips. “Just not to me,” she stated barely audibly to my buzzing ears.
She started making her way to the end of the pew. I thought for sure she’d just keep walking, leaving me alone as everyone potentially does, but she stopped looking me up and down. I could see my own sorrow mirrored in her and my heart it just cracked.
I quickly bowed my head creating a cross in the sky with my head, my eyes pausing at every corner. I forced myself to my feet to follow her speedy paces. She was fast, but I hadn’t trained on the track for half my life, for nothing. I snatched her arm and saw her smile as she turned to me.
“There’s history behind blood shot eyes and short lived future to come,” she said as though reading it in the stars. Gripping my waist she pulled me close, to rest her head against my chest. “Praise and thank Him for deliverance,” she whispered sweeping her hand across the crucifix inked into my skin. “Rejoice for He really is good and don’t forget to pray. He listens,” she finished looking into my eyes once again. A wave of guilt washed over me and I closed my eyes to break the connection. When I re-opened them she was gone as though she never was. As though the dark hair, as shocking as the ravens fluttering overhead, the pale skin as white as the snow and those lips, now etched in my memory, as red as the blood now pumping in my once cold veins, never existed.
She reminded me of someone I once knew but I still couldn’t place my finger on it, maybe she was just a fallen angel helping lost boys find their way home again. Maybe...maybe...