In a Dark Room

In a dark room breaths breach the silence.
The unseen gathers, the gnashing of violence.

Orisons, just cries in the wilderness?
Fear to gag the wounded soul. Villainous!

I reach for a match and the incense burns.
I invoke the Jesus prayer. Bravery churns.

Incense rising, delivering my prayers to heaven.
Peace returns, no best of seven.