ADVICE

Painting/collage by S. Auberle

ADVICE

"Every angel is terrifying."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

An angel told me, once,

it's never wrong to add love,

only wrong to take it away...

I didn't see the angel,

I'm not that crazy.

She was only a voice in my head

as I walked the bluff road.

The wind was fierce that day

and I imagine

the angel didn't want

to venture out of my cozy brain,

her wings being fragile and all.

I begged for more advice

but she was quiet then,

sleeping, I guess, until

she roused one more time to say

it will be years, my dear,

before you grow into this poem.

- mimi