The Angel Song

She hasn't prayed in months.
The big empty void grows by day,
though she lost herself in it, years gone by.
Scanning past writings
she can't help but wonder
how she ever wrote the phrase,
"God's in the void somewhere,"
because these days, or was it some time ago,
he put up a sold sign and moved on.

They tell her many things
and really, what they're all saying
is always the opposite.
To be strong,
to do right,
to love,
to find solace,
to be moral,
and to seek ye first that almightly kingdom.

She's weak,
she always fucks up
she is not loved--
there is none;
and she'll take what she can get.
There is no oz, no wonderland,
or anything simple outside of the local zoo.

For the first time in months
though it seems much, much longer
some piece of somebody's mind and soul
spilled onto paper
and into guitar
reaches out and touches
what has become hardened, near-forgotten.
The music calls out to heaven,
to entire hosts of angels in residence
and to those whose choices have landed them here
with broken, disfigured wings;
who can remember flight and glory, but vaguely.
For three minutes the downward spiral reverses.
This little piece of idyllic soaring song
will keep for all eternity,
thanks to modern technology.
Download it, play, export track,
and save.


PamEhli/June 2003
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