STONE ANGEL

Guardians

Stands the stone angel 

inanimate record keeper

stone pen with etched plume

writing in

stone made opened ledger

in still attendance 

dance three porcelain cupids

 newly ground snow white  designed clay

already show slightly chipped wings 

these ornaments 

are fragile things

they are not built to stay

for now they live 

in the moonlit graveyard

but they do not live

The stone angel record keeper

the three porcelain cupids

they have never lived

they will never die

watcing over 

the once living

long gone or newly dead

their presence

 calmly thrilling

 respect yet 

best not

regard them with dread

guardians of the graveyard

#angeledwardspoetry