Stone Angels

~ Cassie

Oh so cold

Perched here under the night sky

With only gossamer wings to keep me warm

And only a distant memory to remind me

Of how my heart can beat

A slow rhythm now

A cadence of love lingering

The course of blood slowed

Tears frozen by the chill of skin

Be home here or above

There’s nothing left but the plume

Of the last breath expelled

I ran into the world

Only to become a statue

In a garden of lost souls

Children stopped in a moment of joy

So that tendrils of vine may creep

Over their tiny, stone feet

The world echoes our laughter

While closing its doors to us

And immortalizing our ghosts

Turned away like the bruise upon the cheek

We are the ice upon the warm, warm earth

Tiny stone angels in a cemetery

Of people remembered

We are the relics stored for those you love

The flowers you place beside us

The flowers we are forbidden to touch

Take our eyes away from the gray

The stone angels walk the ground of the loved ones

Carved feet tender to the touch

And our cherubic faces

Cruelly posed in a solemn mask

No breath left to expel

No solace left to the night

No peace for the stone angels

No love for my still heart

We walk the ground of the loved ones

Our delicate feet heavy upon the ground

We are the ghosts, your children

We are the fading laughter of the world.

© 2002.