• The angel has left my haven. She has slipped through my fingers, from my heart and my dreams and has left me to cry. Tears from my eyes, pool at my feet. They trail from my cheeks and across my lips, tickling my skin as I dreamt she would. I dare not wipe them from my body; I would be sweeping off the touch of my angel.

    I huff and look away, from her face. Her picture, her bold eyes looking back at me. I want to hide, I want to run but I don’t leave her side. I pray to never let her be lonely. Alas, my prayer, never answered before, shall never be answered even now. I fall to my knees and beg, I plead, I howl. Like a rabid beast I growl and cry out for my angel return. But, fickle is He, who dispenses joy only to rip it back.

    I clutch at my heart and scream in utter agony…I know she will not return to me. Not this time. Like a blazing fire, my blood boils; my skin burning like magma. Lost is my angel from my eyes, my ears, my fingers, my nose, my tongue. My jaws clench, my fists tighten, and I tense.

    The news unbearable, unbelievable, unfathomable; I loathe this day. The day my angel was swept back to heaven, stolen from my sanctuary, rendering me a block of ice. The golden gates a locked; Gabriel’s horn sealed away once more. He does not welcome unwanted souls into His domain. So here I lie, looking up with blank eyes. One hand over my heart, the other covering my eye.

    Sealing in the tiny droplets of liquid crystal that threaten to fall, my hand covers my eyes. My hand covers my eyes, to seal in the image of my angel forever. I swallow my sorrow and remember her…I do not blink. That will erase her eyes. I do not breathe hastily, for then I will be out of sync with her breathes. I barely move, and then I will be with her.

    In my dreams, she will be with me. I will steal her back from His domain every night. She is MY angel, MY joy, MY reason for being. I will not leave until Gabriel call’s me forth, until then. My angel shall remain in my heart at all times, and in my dreams, from when I whisk her away every night.