Waiting for an Angel...

Waiting for an Angel
I lay in gravel
of pieces of my heart
spread widely apart,

Hoping for a white cloud
of heavenly air
to take me aloud
to the Angel's lair....
years passed and...

waiting still, I lay in gravel
of all the pieces of my heart
spread widely apart ...

Dawn after dawn...
i waited to fly away
with an angel holding me on..
so that happily i could sway...

I am waiting still....
for my angel....
in the gravel
of all pieces of my heart
spread widely apart ...

finally the day came ...
when an angel flew by...
I asked a name ...
asked her "with you can i fly?"

the answer came ...
shaking me into dismay...
burning like a flame
turning soot from hay...

the answer ...

in pieces i laid
because of an angel...
the other angel said ...
this time there was no heart
inside me to break apart ..

slowly in grief .. i myself turned to gravel..
waiting still for an angel...


like grains of sand...
wind blew me places...
not knowing where to land...
always moving a few paces ...

I wandered silently away into dusk..

Waiting still ...for an angel...
to take me to her lair...

-Nischal