Words

I know I have said it before, that sometimes words visit me and won't leave me alone until I write them down...share them with someone.  I have watched the news..horrible news of people starving and people being harassed just for the crime of being themselves.  I dropped off to sleep and woke to words singing in my mind....over and over....write me down, write me down..and so

Angel of Peace and Hope

She leans forward,

hair falling over her perfect face.

Her gentle hands reach out

to brush away tears, 

straighten weary, sagging shoulders,

lift heads drooping with sorrow and exhaustion.

But she is only one....

one tiny angel of love and peace and hope

against the insanity

of hatred and greed.

So tiny...so tired from the effort....so determined

to touch every broken bleeding heart.

She will serve until she can serve no more.

Blessed angel be with us now,

for now the need is great.