Angel’s Attention

The angel awakes,
her wings slowly unfurl
stretching out impossibly wide,
luminescent clouds covering the entire sky,
each feather a world unto itself.

She whispers so softly
so as not to wake the dead and the not yet born.

When she recognizes you
the rest of the world falls away,
in the terror and glory of divine attention.
The heart panics and the soul sings
as everything you are resonates in her focus.

Peaceful and unbearable,
heavy the understanding beyond understanding
to be skeletal before the light.

Her gaze penetrates and permeates all,
no subterfuge nor refuge.
She smiles and the world stops
no breath, no thoughts,
her contentment peaceful in its absolution.