So sweet; so innocent, the child of heaven <br />Fallen into revulsion, called Earth <br />Calling out to the depraved to love <br />And be loved <br /> <br />Innocent child; you are a fatuous Angel <br />An Angel, who should have come <br />Long before the conception of aversion <br />You could have saved the lives <br />of the fools that have forsaken and <br />destroyed what was built for them <br /> <br />Angel Child, can you save the fallen world now? <br />I think not! <br />You have come much too late <br />Our salvation is lost! <br />Our hopes are dissolved in desolation <br /> <br />I was once a believer, Angel Child <br />But now I do not know what to believe in <br />I do not feel <br />And I fear I have lost myself <br />I envision that tomorrow will bring yet more sorrow <br />Why have you come now <br />when life has lost its continuum <br /> <br />I once dreamt of peace, purity, concord, entente <br />Now I dream of madness! <br />Madness that has invaded this world <br />Madness that dwells on war, violence, antipathy, perversion <br />And so on <br /> <br />I hate the way we die in bloodshed <br />On what was once the Promised Land <br />Is it a test that God is showering on us <br />to consummation <br /> <br />Ha! I laugh at you, because you finally made me doubt <br />And hope once more <br />Hope for change! <br />Hope for salvation! <br /> <br />Angel you give hope and abandon us <br />And leave us to the wrath of humanity <br />Don’t do this to me! <br />Not now; not ever <br />Go away and leave me alone <br /> <br />Change the world Angel; and I will venerate you! <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />January 1998 – ©Copyright Lynette Dias-Gouveia<br /><br />Lynette Dias Gouveia<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/fatuous-angel/
