And The Angels Cried

Susan Carmichael 1955 (Cleveland)



The Angels looked down from above,
watching her as she sat in anxious silence.
Waiting, hoping, wondering if her lover would appear.
They felt the agonizing loneliness that consumed her.

They listened, as she silently prayed for the screen to bring forth her as yet unseen admirer.
She yearned to read those words.
Words that had the power to tenderly caress her body,
like the soft gentle hands of a lover.

They understood her need for him.
She thirsted for, and was quenched by his impassioned prose.
Each line setting fire to her senses.
She was hopelessly lost inside a fantasy.
Slowly she reached out, softly touching the screen.

They knew her lover would not be coming.
Never again would he ravish her body with unseen hands.
Once more the jilted lover, once more unloved.
Alone she sat in bitter silence, weeping.
And the Angles cried.

About this poem

Divorced and lonely, I was seduced by a man through e-mails. This is when the internet was new to me. I was a babe in the woods...so naive!

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXA AXBA XXXBX CXXCX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 845
Words 166
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 5

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