Angels Torn Of Their Wings
The beast of burdens
She wandered through the night in her dreams
Collecting unkept Souls, gathering them to her,
Understanding their need for destruction, pain
Giving them all they need, rather than just deter.
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She became the keeper of unspoken dreams
As she wandered through on a nightly basis,
Followers of the night creeping in her shadow
Finding forgiveness as they bath in her oasis.
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I would watch her shower them with her love
As they cruelly carved their darkest desires,
Into the very stitches of her indestructible Soul
Recording the existence of the underworlds fires.
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She smiles as she runs her fingers over the scars
Knowing they strengthen her, not at all weaken,
She can handle so much more before breaking
The beast withdrawing at the lightened beacon.
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She understood the pain she carried forward
Each tangled in amongst the burning scars,
She now knew the distress of the wounded
Angels torn of their wings, falling from stars.
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I wept at her torment, her tears and her pain
Although we both knew she’d beat that beast,
She’d not return unscathed, her scars intact
Her wounded heart and love never released.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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