angels we are,
with cathedrals,
poems and prophets
to prove it
what species
is endowed with such gifts?
the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
the pyramids, loosing the bounds of earth to walk on a moon...
the atomic bomb, Anthrax,
and gunfire
are we maggots
on rotting fruit, sated now,
looking to escape before the fruit falls fast
to the ground, before the oceans rise
and the skies fill with ash?
can we not fly away?
no, for we are wingless angels,
killer angels
Sep 29, 2016
Sep 29, 2016 at 4:44 PM UTC
angels we are,
with cathedrals,
poems and prophets
to prove it
what species
is endowed with such gifts?
the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
the pyramids, loosing the bounds of earth to walk on a moon...
the atomic bomb, Anthrax,
and gunfire
are we maggots
on rotting fruit, sated now,
looking to escape before the fruit falls fast
to the ground, before the oceans rise
and the skies fill with ash?
can we not fly away?
no, for we are wingless angels,
killer angels
repost--sliced down version of one from a couple of weeks back that was written in the wake of two 13 year old girls shot walking home from school--one died after the deranged shooter put 14 bullets in her
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