Pain knocked at my door

And I opened it, willingly.

They said “I am here to take over this house.

Your heart, mind, and body, all belong to me now.”

I looked up to bask in this reading, and take in my beautiful surroundings. A window to the left shows the moon setting over the mountains — she’s waning gibbous today. A window to the right shows a rocky hillside. Perhaps this is where my altar has always found me, between the moon and a hard place.