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Purity
Senior Member

since 2001-11-20

Posts 526
Once Upon, USA

0 posted 2005-02-23 03:05 AM

I was an Angel; this is my story.
In Heaven I saw God, and questioned His Glory.
"Why should you be the one considered 'The All'?"
I got my answer when He gave me a fall.

Back to earth I went; there was much there to see:
A mother in a clinic who was frightened by me.
"Why show up now? You're a little too late;
I couldn't handle a child, so the doc sealed its fate."

With sickness I fled, "Why show me this, God?"
"You questioned Me, so on your question now trod!"
I ran from that place with a taste of dismay,
and met a woman who offered herself if I'd pay.

Such sight made me sick, and I fled without haste,
into an even more dreadful scene of humanly waste.
"Slow down there you fool...there's no need to run;
Now give me your money," he said with a gun.

When he saw I had none, he beat me 'til blue.
"Oh God I am sorry I ever questioned you!"
"You have much to learn; it's not over yet"
I couldn't imagine worse for me to get.

I saw sickness and sorrow, and greed all around.
I saw friends betray each other without making a sound.
There was famine and chaos, pestilence and despair.
And the sad thing is no one seemed to care.

Twenty years passed and on earth much I did see.
I wish I could say that it filled me with glee...
But as I watched hell on earth, I felt rather small.
And longing for Heaven, "God, I know now You're the All."

"I'm saving you now from that gun in your hand;
Do not pull the trigger, for you finally stand
With me tonight... You return now in Glory."
God I hope and pray others take heed of my story.

Wings bruised from turning away in such confined space...Not broken...still healable...still feathered with life, somewhere

green_itchy_stuff
Senior Member

since 2003-06-26

Posts 1929
New Caney, Tx

1 posted 2005-02-23 03:20 AM

Like an out of body experience for someone wanting to do "it". Lie the gun down to rest. Its a cool poem. I liked it. Awesome.

Corruption is caused by holes in obedience to God.

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

2 posted 2005-02-23 09:06 AM

It's like looking through jaded eyes though...there are so many beautiful things in this world, goodness, kindness, people who do care and who do good things. I guess though, if you are feeling this way, you really would only see the bad things. I just think, and this is only my thoughs here, that God would show the good things, so you wouldn't want to hurt yourself.

This flows very easy and the rhymes never felt forced, that was good.

Hollow_Emptiness
Senior Member

since 2004-02-01

Posts 715
New Zealand

3 posted 2005-02-23 11:20 PM

Hey Carri, really cool to see your name on the boards, I've felt like I haven't read any of your work for ages. I love this poem. The rhyming just added so much, I haven't read a rhyming poem in a while. Except for the ballads in school. I like what SEA said. Anyway, I must go,

Hollow.
Courtney.

Come on God, do I seem bulletproof?

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