Fallen Angel

She walked the skies

Leaving fragrant footprints

Her eyes like the clear pools

Spoke the language of love.

Her touch lighter than feather

Healed all she touched.

She smiled and the clouds parted,

Her tears melted frozen hearts.

 

 

Cradled in doting arms she slept

Dreaming of stars and rainbows.

Each dawn brought new colors

Each sunset ended with a new hope.

 

The devil watched with a snare

As she danced unaware.

He waited to catch her wings

That shone with rainbow colors.

 

The strings around her heart grew weak

Her steps faltered and lo she fell

She thought it to be a bough of roses

But it pierced her heart and she bled.

 

She ran into the doting arms

But they no longer secured her.

Her tears fell silent

her feet no longer danced.

 

She looked longingly at the moon

Tears glistened in the moonlight

As they fell they burned her

Body and soul.

 

They devil laughed menacingly

He longed to strip her

To thrust her to the fire

And turn colors black.

  

In a disguise did he arrive

Before her he stood with roses and dreams

Caution bells did ring, admonishing her

But she ran and slipped.

 

She saw plumes of varied hues

Music rang in the air

Melodies that lulled senses

The devil stripped her of all.

 

Lower she fell

Into the fires and singed her wings

Colors vanished and meadows turned dry

Tears fell her heart fell silent.

 

She heard a wail and she looked

A nymph with wings that shone like the sun

Smiled back at her and touched her tenderly

Her heart sung again with lost songs.

She flew again with broken wings

Among angels and midst of clouds

She no longer smiled lest the devil heard her

The nymph held on to her teaching her to fly.

 
She rose a little higher with broken wings

The fallen angel catching the rainbow within her heart

Colors shone from her wings again

Prisms  of colors that spoke her story to all.