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Heaven On Earth
There she was...lying on the bathroom floor
Like a fallen angel exhausted from it's journey, she laid motionless and beaten by life
I bent down and picked up her body up from the cold white pale floor
I cradled her in my arms as a mother does to her fragile infant and I carried her away
Away from the pain, away from the stress and away from the sticks and stones that crushed her soul

As I walked with her body in my hands, I began to feel something drip on my skin
It started off warm and light like water but the more it ran down my arm the colder it got
I looked down at my fallen angel and I saw scars on her arm
Scars that began to bleed as I carried her step by step
The image of her bright red blood made my soul shiver and shattered the pieces of my mind that tried to piece together what was happening

My mind began to ramble with twisted thoughts and assumptions...
I had wondered
"What could have crippled the wings of my angel and reduce her to a human being?
Was the world really such a cruel place that even an angel could be weakened and defeated? What was it she wasn't telling me?"

As more blood began to drip more of me began to tear
I had never felt fear before but at that moment I was petrified
My body began to quiver and I was paralyzed with conflict and confusion
Her body began to lose it's warmth and my heart no longer seemed to beat
I had fallen to one knee and began to pray
"Forgive her father for she know not what she do. You have blessed her
with internal love, so why is that not enough? What could make her
cut her wings and release her grace? Father, whatever pain and sickness
that troubles her please, please remove it. She is your angel but she is
my heaven, I don't know the tricks the devil has plagued her with but I
don't care. Take her suffering and her guilt, remove the burden that
has diminished her will. Take the burden and rest it on my shoulders!

Whatever cruel fate that has been bestowed on her, make it mine! I
will carry both our weight as I have carried her, damn my soul to hell
before she takes all that she can bear. This world is no paradise without
her here. Hear my cries and sorrow! For what she has done to herself pales
in comparison to what her scars has done to me! Please oh lord, set my
heaven free!
When my prayer was finished, I could see no or feel no more blood. Her body had regained it's composure. She had open her eyes and looked at me with no memory of what had happened. She had asked me "John, what has happened to your wings? I answered and said "God, has taken them and given them to another angel. But do not worry, rest for we are fine." She closed her eyes and I kissed her and whispered.."Never again will you feel pain, never again will you feel sorrow, never again will I let this would contaminate you. You will never have to touch this world again, I will never let you go...I will carry you forever."


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