Bitter dark angels
In shades of twilight
Drifting and floating and whirling about
With the falling white snow
Down to the ground
All the tears frozen
The fresh snow unmarred
One lost wailing cry
Follows another
Alone in the cold
Black feathers landing
To dust the new snow
Forgotten light fades
With crumpled wings broken
And blood stains the snow.
Unhidden from God
Within mercy’s wrath
Despairing heads lift
To show laughing eyes
A new purpose revealed
With Hope’s dying cry
Nothing else matters
Everything is lost
Heaven forsaken
For free will at last.
Still tweaking the meter, not quite where I want it yet, and it’s still untitled.