Somewhere far east

the sound of Job’s primal scream

still tearing through the air.


A sound older than scripture.

Older than mercy.


It travels.


Across deserts.

Across centuries.


Stone temples crumble.

Columns fall like broken teeth.

Altars sink back into dust.


But somewhere


inside the temple

a heartbeat.


Inside the temple

a heartbeat.


Inside the temple

a heartbeat.


Not stone.


Not marble.


God himself.


A ribcage of thunder

holding the noise of human pain.


Job screaming

into the lungs of heaven.


And heaven breathing it in.


Pain lives there.


A small animal scratching

inside the chest of God.


A wound

that refuses to close.


Inside the temple

a heartbeat.


Inside the temple

a heartbeat.


Inside the temple

a heartbeat.


Not silence.


Not peace.


Just the stubborn drum

of suffering


beating

inside the body of God.


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