Do you believe in angels
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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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Copyright © John DuffyASY | Year Posted 2025
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