The World Again

A beautiful angel picked me up off the ground

And I heard this unique and wonderful sound

It was her voice as if heaven bound

For once I was not so down,

Like a ballerina in the air

With skin so perfect and fair

I glanced spellbound into her loving stare

I had to pinch myself was she really there?

From my sorrow I was swept away

No longer a victim to be betrayed

The one I could count on to stay

Never thought it could happen this way,

Like a cool breeze on a sultry day

A world that could exist beyond dismay

I knew she would always be there and never stray

She was the very creature for which every man would pray,

There I was in the middle of magical bliss

Hardly able to grasp what I’d done to deserve this

Too accustomed to a life of hit or miss

I knelt before her in a gesture of thankfulness,

Like a junkie locked in a narcotic dream

For once I was convinced there was no scheme

“Deliver me! Deliver me!” I screamed

But things were not what they seemed,

Suddenly something emerged from the shadow realm

The captain of the dream boat was no longer at the helm

It seemed I’d fallen from a high limb of an elm

A sudden realization began to overwhelm,

A man dying of thirst in a desert sees a mirage

The love I’d embraced was camouflaged

My salvation from an angel sabotaged

As if I’d awoken in an ER room during a heart massage,

Back to the familiarity of the world again

Back to the destructive works of men

Back to the hungry Grizzly’s den

Back to being without a friend.