don't fly home even though
you are too pretty to live here.
soot and ash stains on your white wings.
dragging a heavy slipper through the back alley grime.
what purpose have we but to roam intoxicated?
your beauty makes them blush in anger.
your purity they resent.
how the pious never seem to recognize something truly
heaven sent.
angelboy i wanted your love but it wasn't up for grabs.
i stayed lonely for a long time.
i cried for many nights.
i died in my dreams but you never swooped in to
save me.
The music of a lost heaven had your ear.
Kevin M. Hibshman has had poems published in many journals and magazines world wide.
In addition, he has edited his poetry zine, Fearless, since 1990 and is the author of sixteen chapbooks including Love Sex Death Dreams (Green Bean Press, 2000) and Incessant Shining (Alternating Current, 2011).
His current book Just Another Small Town Story from Whiskey City Press is currently available on Amazon.
Beautiful.... tugged on the heartstrings 💔
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