Prayer Rooms

The walls of the prayer room
in a hospital
are bulletproof and soundproof.

Or maybe—
it is all prayer rooms.

When the doors close,
the rest of the world
ceases to exist.

But I think—
it may be
the women’s
prayer room.

God built the rooms
separate—
for me to pour
my heart to Him,


and for them
to lift the pieces
shattered
by the outer world.