and you were there in the start of it all and you folded your hands like little doves that would fly away like an afterthought and you turned to me the window light on your face and you asked me something that i did not recognize like a great throng of people who are not you and i asked are we in a church and you answered with the look on your face of someone grieving something gone for years but that they had been reminded of by a catch in the light or in someone's voice and i think maybe it could have been mine and i looked away thickly my head was in jelly and i didn't get an answer from you but i got one i looked at the man in front of us with glasses he was speaking and holding a book and i didn't understand him he was far away and i could tell i was missing something important and you nodded to yourself at something he said