WHEN THE ANGELS CAME
The afternoon that the angels came, I didn’t get to speak. They took you away before too long to give you some peace.
So unlike any other day, the sun shone on my face. My stomach tightened as the news came through, it put me in my place
That afternoon when they led you home, you left us all so alone. It’s not if we hadn’t known this day would come, but time we thought, there was still some....
You sat so patiently in a sunlit room staring off into space, waiting for your kin to arrive, then they came and off you went, the last to survive.
You suffered so, you paid your dues, for the time you spent on earth. For the wars and the other truths your young eyes had observed.
The afternoon that the angels came, was like no other day. They not only came to lead you home, but to take your pain away