The Veil

Written for Rena’s Xploration Challenge
where our inspiration is the word ‘numinous’.

The stranger on the corner holds a sign,
his eyes contain a numinous, old light…
what looks like ruin is, perhaps, divine,
and what seems day may be the edge of night.

The house that leans on Eldritch Lane appears
abandoned, rotted through with want and shame,
yet love has grown there, patient, through the years,
and something holy answered when you came.

We read each other’s faces like a map
we printed wrong, mistaking hill for plain…
the sacred hides inside the mundane gap,
and gods, they say, have walked in wind and rain.

NAR©2026

This is “People Are Strange” by The Doors

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #435

^{Everything on The Elephant’s Trunk was created by me, unless otherwise indicated. Thanks for your consideration. NAR©2017-present.}