- emmabriedis
The Angels Envy Us
Updated: Jan 3, 2019

Under satin flowers painted on record sleeves
Lie hidden smiles of our lost fantasies,
As we ran along beaches of soft, white sand
With our clothes forsaken, gripping each other’s hand.
We did not think of the future, but let it be
For deeper seas I’ve never seen than when you looked back at me
With a crook of your head and a bashful smile,
You held me under skies of ebony
But the darkness could not touch us
For we would watch the stars above us gleam
Below us, the water touched our toes
When the cymbals crashed, your face would glow
But now, cigarette smoke grits between my teeth,
As I think of our memories, now long-off dreams
And I smile despite my wrinkled face,
Cause even then, the angels envied us.
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