EVERY FALLEN FEATHER

My angel didn't fall she landed
In spite of what the gods commanded
She nourished my eyes wearing only her wings
And we stayed up all night doing heavenly things

She told me they would come to find her
That there wasnt any way to hide her
So I bolted the doors like the fool that I am
And I cried in her arms, I am only a man
She replied, that might be true
But I think much more of you

So for seven days I walked beside her
And for seven nights I slept inside her
But I woke on the eighth with a cold on my skin
And a space in the place where her face should have been

And I knew that they had come to get her
So I gathered every fallen feather
She had warned me of this but I always refused
When she said I'd move on, because thats what men do
I replied, that might be true,
But I think much more of you

And as the years go by, I'll be looking to the heavens

So I went to search the sky one morning
And I saw her on the ground before me
With a tear in her eye and a bruise on her chin
And a wound on her back where her wings should have been

So I knelt down at her side to touch her
And she told me that the fall had crushed her
In exchange for her sins I'd be damned for all time
So she gave them her wings if it meant I'd get mine

So I held her as the sun I was rising
And I whispered as her heart was fighting

I'll pray for the day that those fools follow through
Cause I'll make them all pay for what they've done to you.
She replied, that might be true. But I think much more

SHAYFER JAMES
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