By Athena Stairs, October 31, 2025
One perfect Fall day
Cascading sun rays
Revealed before me
A figure of an angel
Forged in darkness
Brilliant in splendor
Haloed light’s sashay
Will forever replay
In nights restless
His knowing smile
Held all the while
Delighted interest
What happens to mortal soul
Once beholds the face of God?
How to repent for lacking
Chance to kneel in fealty?
Held back by fear of
Trangressing cruelly
Without a hand gesture to
Allow kissing finger’s sigil?
Ah No! – Let it not be that
Such glory’s abandoning!
For bereft I’ll always be
Consumed by such grief
Fed upon by regrets
Imposing madness!
And in the years to come my
Heart will fight but not win
Remembering love’s hope
In its bloom left to languish
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