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A Gift from the Seraphim

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Every drop that falls upon my face feels like a gentle kiss
Cold, bitter and hollow
Meant to be a comfort
A gift from the seraphim
To heal my broken life
Their tears cried for me for I can shed no more
My eyes have dried
Shards litter the floor about my feet
Far too small to matter but still so sharp
Sharp enough to cut my hands to ribbons when I try to touch them
But still I try
Those shattered cutting blades are all that remain of my heart

I've fallen now
Hard upon my knees
The shards of what was once my heart render my skin and make me bleed
My face upturned towards the sky
Eyes staring but unseeing at the gray slate sky
Gentle rain coming down
Tears upon my face that I have not cried
A gentle kiss upon my face
A chilly breeze wrap in embrace
A gift from the seraphim
For with my shattered heart my soul did die as well
I cannot grieve I cannot hurt
For the dead do not feel and life is but a dream to them

Every drop a kiss
Upon my lips and cheeks and eyes
Upon my brow and head

Burning heat surrounds me now as I'm lifted from the ground
Thunders booms and lightning crashes
But I hear not a sound

Sight returned to unseeing eyes to see a pair looking back
Dark as the night bright as the sun
Deep as the sea strange as the moon
Beautiful all the same

The rain is gone now

He is their last gift
An angel in his own right

I've been brought back to life
I can feel it now
As I'm set beneath a tree
And I scream a scream no creature has ever heard before till there is no sound left in me

He kneels before me
His hands are bleeding

I see my heart in his hands
Mended with parts of his own

But instead of returning, this mangled ugly thing
To me his gives his own
Pieced with some of mine

His eyes slid shut and he softly spoke these words
"No more will you feel this pain; I will carry it. No more will you be alone; I will stand with you. For now my heart is yours and I will guard your own"
He pressed my heart against his chest and his brow upon my own

It seemed as though I had slept a thousand years only to awaken now
I felt no pain, no grief

Lips split into a smile
Eyes shut in joy
Hands clasped his heat to my breast while my soul rejoiced

Crying out its gratitude for this man, this gift
A gift from the seraphim
When life is never more painful, and you feel nothing left to live for.
When the reason you live destroys you and leaves you for dead.
May the gods send you an Angel to heal your broken heart and fix your shattered soul.
While the rain falls all around you, let no despair grip you
For the Angel will make you whole.


Okay, I have no idea where that came from... I got stuck out in the rain because my ride was late and started this and when I got in the car Lifehouse's You and Me was playing, and then some other sap-tastic songs came on and this was the result. What the hell that little paragraph above is all about, I have no clue.
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Sam4765's avatar
i must say this is your finest work yet Madame!

So many try to stand alone
and so many fall alone
You can only stand on your own for so long
for no one is never that strong