A Time for Angels

A Time for Angels

And God said, let there be angel.

And the angel was made out of words.

And man said, let there be angel

made of inner words.

Let the angel be in the likeness of my spirit.

And God said, let every man have an angel

in his likeness up in heaven and when he dies

may they become one.

And man said, if God does not create the angel,

the imagination must create it,

because if there’s a gap between God and man

there can be no communication.

There must be an intermediary spirit

between sky and earth,

between the invisible and the visible,

between the spiritual and the material.

God said, man arrived late for the time of gods

and early for the time of beings,

the angel came on time for both.

Man said, the angel is the body joining

gods and beings, it is the bridge that joins

the stare to what is looked at.

God said, so men and angels understand

each other, angels on earth must speak

the languages of men, and when men dream

they must speak the language of angels.

Because there is an original language

understood by angels of all ages and all races

and it is made of poetry.

Man said, an angel knows when he is in front

of another angel, not by what is said and revealed

but by the light coming out of their eyes.

God said, angels cannot be seen with eyes,

because they are inside the eyes.

Man said, then, the angel we seek in the world

is within us, it is us?

God said, when man finds himself

let the angel be what is looked for in the world

because the body of both is made of interior words.

Man said, the angel that I see,

that does not see me, is the one I will be

when I die.

God said, let the angel of man live beyond man,

let it raise above its body and earn its real existence.

May the angel take the form that man wants to give it.

Man said, then, the angel has the body the imagination

gives it? The angel painted on my back, the angel

tattooed on my arms, will shield my back and will

protect my arms. One day it will be like myself.

And God said, the angel, in this time of darkness

that’s approaching, is a messenger of light.

Let the angel be the equal of man.

Because this is a time of angels.