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Donall Dempsey
Poems
May 2020
THE REDUNDANT ANGEL
THE REDUNDANT ANGEL
year in year out
the marble angel
clocked into the graveyard
same old job
looking sorrowful for the dead
in clement or inclement weather
the constant
human crying
getting on her nerves
human life so fragile
as Heaven calls them
the great here and gone
but the forgetting
the worse to bear
no one remembers who's buried there
a century old cold
an icicle
hanging from a nose
half chipped away
a lichen
tear
so minus an arm
left with a broken wing
the angel makes good her escape
rising up into the air
the marble heavy upon her
taking to the Christmas sky
snow
getting in
her blinded eyes
only to find
Heaven was
no longer there
closed for repairs
due to a lack of
belief
the dawn
of a new century
seeing her
broken by
the graveyard wall
praying to herself
Written by
Donall Dempsey
Guildford
(Guildford)
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