Slowly

Slowly sliding

Slowly collapsing

Slowly tightening

Slowly darkening

Slowly succumbing

Slowly suffocating

Gray.  Cool. Despair

My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Slowly warming

Slowly feeling

Slowly breathing

Slowly awakening

Slowly brightening

Slowly stopping

Lighter.  Warmer.  Hope.

Better is one day in your courts

than a thousand elsewhere.