For Christmas and Funerals  

Two female spirits
with very black eyes
took me to a massive
gymnasium packed
with thousands and
thousands of empty
clothes,

and it was there
I wept for those
who have vanished
or will
vanish.

And in my ears,
the spirits whispered these
words just before I awoke:

“Understand this.
Angels come not
to save our lives
but rather
our souls.”

© 2006  Mark Kozub