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Wise angels only hum and hide their wings Watching silently from heaven of the trivial human things They see us and they groan Because we are doomed: everything is set in stone Twisting an turning fate keeps us ever outside their hands They stand on the shore of Rubicon but on the opposite side of the sands They seek not a chisel or a knife to carve out our names To erase us from the universe; to bathe us in flames But they never seek to glorify the lives we live They will watch us die And though their cheeks be bathed with tears For a little boy lost before his years The threads of fate they dare not touch The woven power is far too much But instead they hum their soft sweet songs Wondering if maybe the Fates were wrong They feel remorse for the living but they care for the shades Because each and every one of them have fought their own crusades Wise angels’ eyes glisten with pent up grief Because they can do nothing but shape our belief
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Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014 at 10:04 PM UTC
Wise Angels
Wise angels only hum and hide their wings Watching silently from heaven of the trivial human things They see us and they groan Because we are doomed: everything is set in stone Twisting an turning fate keeps us ever outside their hands They stand on the shore of Rubicon but on the opposite side of the sands They seek not a chisel or a knife to carve out our names To erase us from the universe; to bathe us in flames But they never seek to glorify the lives we live They will watch us die And though their cheeks be bathed with tears For a little boy lost before his years The threads of fate they dare not touch The woven power is far too much But instead they hum their soft sweet songs Wondering if maybe the Fates were wrong They feel remorse for the living but they care for the shades Because each and every one of them have fought their own crusades Wise angels’ eyes glisten with pent up grief Because they can do nothing but shape our belief
Ancient-Greeklet
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Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014 at 10:04 PM UTC
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