Monday, March 14, 2005

Angelic hope
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everything starts
when a child is born
and in the heavens
an angel plays its horn

birth to child hood
adolecents to teens
midlife to older
do you know what ie means?

after conseption
then your born
into royaltee
or into scorn

you live your life
to what you think
is the fullest, in school
your pushed to the brink

in due time
you've grown out of school
you think your hot
you think your cool

but more than one knows
what you can be
what you will become
only he can see

after you have lived
through the ages
through luxury
through cages

he will come
when it is your time
whether your the innocent
or commited the crime

he will be there,
watching and waiting
looking for the time
standing and debating

then he will snach you
right out of your body
there he will stand
without the hot toddy

scythe in hand
black hooded robe
bones that you can see
no eyes shaped like a globe

he will becon you
with one bony finger
telling you that
you cannot linger

"I am the grim"
he says with a
low airy voice
"listen to what i say"

"now you are dead,
now you are mine
to take wherever
until its your time"

you try to run
hide in a ditch
he will find you
in every niche

"come with me now"
again he siad
"for i only know
where you shall head"

"be it heaven
or hell
above the clouds
or trapped in a cell"

you shudder in fright
your eyes gain tears
while you are thinking of
what you did over the years

he turns to look at you
his sockets are empty
he opens his jaws
laughs of plenty

"i know where your going
i know where you've been
i know what you did
when you were ten"

you shudder and weap
as you enter the abys
you follow his every move
thinking 'this is hit or miss'

then you see them
the fires of hell
you think to yourself
'in trapped in a cell'

but you look to your left
and there it resides
the gates of heaven
where eternity you will bide.

but in the middle
is a waste land
there are men and women
with a place to stand

"that is purgatory"
you hear the grim say
"you will not be there
at least not today"

"you will be with me
looking over the world
for new victims
in purgatory to be hurled"

you say in a timid voice
"i dont want to take them"
he replies
"its you or them"

"i dont think
your want to go there
you'll lose your senses
till you stand there and stare"

"heaven or hell
i only know
where you will be
where you will go."

"so come with me now
or here you shall stay
with thoes in the middle
with thoes who arent at bay."

im standing here now
i have made my choice
i followed him round
without using my voice.

the fire is hotter
and im at the end of my rope
all i have now
is the angels hope.

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