We are angels
to each other
My needs met in you
and yours in me.
At the very least
we keep each other afloat
At peace
and on an even keel
Company in
other’s solitude
Fellow travellers
of this pilgrim’s road.
At best, though
I suspect God might mean
us to reflect
each other’s light
magnifying glasses
of the kind that highlight the good
that we might shed the shame
carried as a weight
on our shoulders
for far too long
and rise still
to greater and greater heights.
We are angels
to each other
my uplift is your gain
the wind beneath my wings
the impetus
for your forward momentum.
And the view of you
against the backdrop of heaven
is the inspiration for my own
becoming
and my journeying onwards
into the wide and beckoning sky.
Ana Lisa de Jong
October 2017
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