Picture
Caption: Please
Show
Me
Your
Wings rAveNswAn
Caption: You must be an angel
Please show me your wings
'Cause I’ve basked in your light
Through celestial dreams
Blanketed by your warmth
All safe and serene
You must be an angel
Please show me your wings
Picture
Caption: You’ve shown me
How to take
How to give
How to be
How to love
How to live
How to dream
Caption: You must be an angel
Please show me your wings
A nightmare in hell
‘Til a depth that I reach
Where the wind brings you in
And the air about you sings
You must be an angel
Please show me your wings
Picture
Caption: Before I met you
I was stuck
Stuck on a hell-evator
Rode only one way
Down
See you later, alligator
And Dante the Doorman
Announced each level
Down
Each level begins
With the next of the
Seven deadly sins
Then ends it with how
Their suffering begins
Picture
Picture
Caption: Dante the Doorman With no warning
The hell-evator doors burst open
Shook Dante to the core
Stood wide-eyed and jaw opened
He had not recognized the floor
Caption: Then you stepped in
The doorman stepped aside
Involuntarily
But in doing so
Revealed the single button
Down
The only button for this ride
‘Til you revealed another
Dusted its seven layers of shell
Revealed an arrow pointing up
The only way out of this hell
The button now shines
A reflection in your eyes ⏬
A shiny new button
A fresh new start
Compared to the eternal wear
Upon its button counterpart
Picture
Picture
Caption: Unknown to me
First time clean
First time seen
First time pressed
First time in eternity
First time blessed
To find a new button pressed
Picture
Caption: A new button pressed
In this elevator
With nowhere to go but
Up
Has me finally going to go
Up
Now I’ve gotta know what is
Up....
Picture
Caption: It’s you...
You must be an angel
Please show me your wings
You’ve saved me from hell’s
Damnation destinies
Now blanketed by your warmth
All safe and serene
You must be an angel
Please show me your wings
Picture
Caption: "It’s you...
You must be
an angel.
Please show me
your wings." rAveNswAn
Picture
Caption: You’ve shown me
How to take
How to give
How to be
How to love
How to live
How to dream
Picture
Caption: You must be an angel
Please show me your wings
I’ll share with you
My hopes
My dreams
I’ll share with you
My everything
You must be an angel
Please show me your wings
Picture
Caption: #PleaseShowMeYourWings
#stellerstories
#ravenswan
#ronaswan
#poetry
#poems
#steller
#lyrics
#inthewindthesewords
Picture
Caption: Fox Mulder I dedicate this to our beautiful kitten and angel, Fox Mulder.
I had written the first draft of Please Show Me Your Wings on the morning of 2.2.2017, all the while with Fox purring and curled on my chest.
That afternoon, we took him to the vet suspecting growing pains and teething. We learned he had F.I.P., a terminal feline virus that would quickly turn painful.
With love and mercy, we had to put him down.
We love you, Fox.
R.I.P.