Yawning and stretching we wake up and have coffee <br /> gather our papers and go off to work, <br /> as heavenly bodies make their way round to sunrise <br /> and angels and demons parry opening lines. <br /> <br /> Stocks go up as jobs go down as <br /> empty commuters pass by homeless wizards, <br /> and angel icons fly through computer windows <br /> with the demonic speed needed to meet a deadline. <br /> <br /> We get home from work to the same thing for dinner <br /> and we lay on our sofas and turn on our TV's, <br /> watching bloodstained children with souls with no future <br /> smiling bravely as onlooking demons take notes. <br /> <br /> To the pub down the street to forget about people <br /> but there's dancing and laughter, food and good spirits, <br /> and a beautiful woman smiles kindness to strangers <br /> and the band plays from heaven and the angels take note. <br /> <br /> We get home for the evening, survivors at days end <br /> and we lay on our sofas and turn on our TV's, <br /> watching angels play baseball and devils play hockey <br /> we know that tomorrow we'll go round again.<br /><br />Michael J. Rosella<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-day-in-heaven-in-hell-and-on-earth/
