Notes About The Poem
Inspired by a movie I once saw, using different details and a totally different ending!
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When Angels Yield To Fate
Here below the point where, losing his footing,
he’d tumbled down into the cavity
of what appeared to be a giant cleft
left in the side of this ancient cliff,
He lay, an anomaly
sharing space with two large boulders
which he now was wedged between.
These rocks, which had formed
layer upon layer through millenniums
till they jutted out into the
hollow’s middle space,
held him in a firm and stubborn grip.
He strained again and again
to extricate his body, but to no avail.
He remained securely lodged between the rocks.
Days passed. The man’s little hope
became despair.
Till the final drop of water in his canteen
had been drained,
till his final cries for help echoed in his ears
and then dissolved,
he lay in misery - soberly reflecting
on both the bad, though repented of, and
the mostly good he’d done throughout his life.
Then yielding to his fate, and
looking upward to the last small space of heaven
he could see,
he slowly closed his eyes.
Above him, gazing down from
a thinly veiled partition in the sky
was his guardian, who wept one silent tear.
She wept for one thing only- for
the fear and suffering her charge had long endured.
When that single tear was shed,
(and this is key) she wept no more,
but spread strong, graceful wings
for her descent.
June 17, 2020
For John Hamilton's Your Fave Poem 2020 Not Written For A Contest Poetry Contest
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