MORGANNA'S POETRY CORNER

"Ode to an Angel" "Even in my darkest hour//This Angel flies deep in my soul//Even though I did not ask him to//His brilliant light comes shining through//When I cannot lift my weary head//Or be inspired enough to even jump out of bed//The Angels laughing eyes they shine//Try as I might I cannot hide//From their purity and light//Telling me what I've always known//That I have to be true to what he's shown//In that blessed joyous gift//Of dance and wondrous joy//My happiness lifts//My thoughts they whisper 'You're mad at me'//'I've let you down so terribly'//Would My Angel point the finger of blame//Say of me he was ashamed//Or would he wrap his arms around me so tight//Tell me not to be afraid of the night//These dark nights, we all have them//They come along when we least expect them//This Angel is so great in my eyes//To his values I only want to aspire//Act upon his words of strength and wisdom//O, how I wish I could be like him!//He told me I must face the pain//If anything in my life I want to gain//Yet sometimes it is so dreadfully hard//To do right by my Angel, as I promised I would//I know he loves me when I'm at my peak//And for attention I do not seek//I dance for him, the energy flowing//Love and joy building and growing//Yet I am like that girl with the curl in the middle of her forehead//When I am good, I am very very good//But when I'm bad I'm horrid//I only want to continue to try//Not to be a bad person in his eyes//That he will smile at me and say//I'm glad that our paths crossed this day//Fulfil your dreams and make me proud//No more will stormy weather cloud//Your horizons, now so blue and sunny//Your wish will come true if you believe so strongly//So, even in my darkest moments//When the world seems cold and cruel//My Shining Angel comes shining through//I might try and deny my love for him//But there's no escape from what I feel//He will always be my beloved so dear//No matter what life may bring//This love for him I will always sing//No one will ever be able//To banish this love so strong and stable//You may try and take it away from my head//In my heart it remains until the end of days...".............. (c) Belinda Hamilton, Nov. 16, 1999