Voices rising

We are led in prayer

encouraged to pray

our own prayers aloud

so the voices rise at first

a quiet cacophony then

become louder merging

into a single, solitary

stream of many streams

and the current carries

the voice upward, outward,

spilling on to the sidewalk

and street, splattering

the man as he walks by.

Related:

We Are the Church (Part 2)

Photograph by Petr Kratochvil via Public Domain Pictures. Used with permission.