Deux Anges from Deux Anges by Bipolar Explorer (c/p. 2020 Slugg Records)

(spoken word)

Something called him out of sleep
Toward a light, aglow
And he shuffled, blurry-eyed, half-conscious to the window
An neglected late night desk lamp still dimly alight there.
Not quite awake in the deep blue of the pre dawn air
Distant stars and a crescent moon still predominant in the blanket of sky
Movement caught the periphery of his eye
And startled, he staggered a step or two away.
Had he seen it?
Really?
Creeping back, reverent, silent
He looked a second time
To see, across the way
Upon the roof of the opposite building
Perched, and rising against the early morning cyclorama behind,
Two figures seated
Their slender legs dangling over the parapet
In quiet conversation -
More like song
The sound, he knew now
Not the light
Had awoken him -
Wings unfolded
Two angels keeping watch
Over the last moments of the night
Two angels
Against the dark-to-lightening sky
Just before dawn
Two angels
In appearance, so like his own
When she herself had trod the earth
And the other as the one she had sent
To tell him so
Two angels
Never knowing they could ever even be seen
Not at this hour
Or maybe ever
If no one ever simply looked up
Two angels
Two angels, the morning sky behind them
Before they too took flight
Two angels
Perhaps they were always there.

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17.	Deux Anges	4:22

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from Deux Anges, released November 13, 2020

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