Do you believe in angels?

 

 Foundation.

Do you believe in angels?

And do they patiently wait for prayers to be called to help?

Title:

The Eternal Water Oaks

A lone voice whispers

The invisible Angel smiled at the rows of sorrowful patients

Which lay before it on ward twenty-one of Saint Peter's Hospital 

In New Brunswick

New Jersey 

As it then looked at just one particular sorry soul, whose body was now broken and bent

For it was why it was summoned by heartfelt prayers 

Whispered by his family and wife to be heard 

For it to be dutifully sent

The smile it carried wasn't a smile of ill judgement 

Or dismay, but of immense hope 

To change the sad vibrations at play

For it knew the recently diagnosed patient would find the tenacity and strength to eventually cope

Whether they recover or leave others to grieve 

For they all do 

It's a silent degree

A line spoken by the Almighty 

What all things follow if they truly believe whatever it says

All they or others have to do is call for them and pray

To summon angels from The Great In-Between

The bringers of such priceless white crisp envelopes to soothe the soul

The invisible folk

Who'll follow like betrothed guardian philanthropists

Just huddled together

Sleeping

In the half-shade of the Great In-Between trees

The Eternal Water Oaks

Waiting for psychic calls to spring into action

To fly to those caused by an exothermic reaction

A chemical interaction followed by the evolution of heat

With incredible satisfaction 

To find those whom they are called to greet 

Into the lonely, caressing arms of the swirling grey mists 

Which moved and flowed all around 

Like it had a phenomenal supernatural intelligence 

Hiding those sleeping 

By The Great Grey Oaks 

Angels

Hidden

By its holy smoke, which it uses to dutifully cloak

Eternal friends 

Who know

Living or dying isn't the end

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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