When the Walls Shut Out the World

Reasons hang there in the silence, heavy and ponderous. We feel the weight of them dragging the sky down to the horizon, pulling that horizon closer until we feel its confines around us. There is no escape from the now and the reasons that hold us here, together in a room where the walls keep us safe, but also make us prisoners of this here and this now. The walls keep us safe from the reasons waiting out there to entangle us in all their reasons why not and why this should ever happen. But t...