The Digital Cathedral...

A centuries old cathedral encased in glass stood for but a few to visit. One solemn day, it became a sanctuary for two alone...

They wandered in as strangers and shared in it's imagination.  They tendered song and roses to it's beauty until their hearts were offered as well.  Daily they came to admire it until they found themselves ignoring it all together.  They met there daily still and instead of gazing at it's beauty, they now found each other's eyes even more worthy of gaze.  He came to adore the smile she couldn't help.  She became enamored by the foolish quirk he could not hold in.  All this becoming more important than this place.  They would soon feel the need to touch but the sanctity of this place was still too grand and now what had brought them together had become what was keeping them apart. They knew they didn't need the cathedral but as it became a staple in their new found love, they were afraid of leaving it behind lest their love would be left behind as well.  Until one day...they found themselves having no choice but to do just that.  The man became so ill that he could not meet his timely commitment anymore.  Sadness and confusion overtook them...

They feared the loss of the love found in that place but as minutes felt like hours and hours felt like days...something else altogether happened.  This love they found did not wane but instead began to suffer the pain of loss.  The truest testament to something's value.  They found they missed the stillness of their company and came to find something more to miss...the touch they had so longed for but already had.  For even though they did not touch in flesh...they touched in spirit.  Something very few could ever truly comprehend.  The intimacy of souls was theirs now to keep in perpetuity.  What of the cathedral?  It's beauty stands but it had lost its power over the fate that was now theirs.  They found the treasured confirmation they had been looking for in the discomfort of change.  That all they ever needed to do was trust the love that they had found...was real.  That yes, it did in fact transcend space, time, holiness and sin.  Unlike the multitudes that met in that place and thought the same. They were the exception as they came seeking nothing for themselves and found each other instead...

Today they meet where they please.  Sanctifying the very spaces they enter by the beauty of her smile and the quirk of the fool...

To understand: All that has value must be tested outside it's place of comfort.  If it endures to flourish...so will it's value...  

~Moses Apollo