Graveyard Angel

I heard an angel speak last night and he said "write".------------------Elizabeth Barrett Browining So I took my pen to mark his words. No angel would I slight. There’s a corner in the graveyard where the small ones lie in death, some torn from their mother’s wombs before they’d taken breath. Other dates show three short days, or a month up to a year. This is where the graveyard angel, the most often will appear. You will find her graven image on the gravestones all around. Older graves will have no flowers to adorn the little mounds. The grass grows with abandon as it always has for years, saturated splendidly with grief-stricken mother’s tears. But mothers, fathers, siblings die. The graves could be forgotten. God sends his graveyard angel to guard each and every one. She will be there to guide them when that final trumpet sounds and their souls are all transported from those tiny little mounds. By: Joyce Johnson 6/15/11 Won a 5th For "Angels in Cemeteries" contest. Sponsored by Constance LaFrance