Undiscovered Particle

The small ones, like:

“Please don’t let the grease that I spilled

onto the crotch of my pants at lunch,

set into the fabric and create a dark spot

there for all time.”

The large ones with a special gravity of their own:

“Make the pain stop.”

“I will do anything, if you bring back my love.”

Each unanswered prayer,

a particle sent out into the ether,

not yet discovered by physicists,

gathering and expanding. 

The force and weight of them on our lives,

the random chance of an answered prayer,

a miracle,

keeping us believing, if only subconsciously,

maybe this time my plea will be answered.