What sounds do angels hear?
The soft deep moan of rolling stone,
sand crunched to sand beneath,
softly sighing air drawn through
the widening portal.
What sounds do angels hear?
Did these working tones obsure
the insects’ songs, the chattering leaves,
the scrape of claws, the murmuring brook
around the corner of the hill?
What sounds do angels hear?
The night-bound stillness
of the sleeping city,
stones sighing as they settle,
a thousand dreaming murmurs?
What sounds do angels hear?
The sudden inhaled breath,
the heartbeat strong beyond all hope,
cloth scraping over stone and skin,
the sudden thud of feet upon the floor?
What sounds do angels hear?
The splash of tears on dust?
A meditative humming? Deep-drawn breaths?
Or, after a silence to encompass all the world,
a gale of laughter from the deepest wells of joy?
What sounds do angels hear?
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