Title: Eternity
Author: Althea
Summary: Just a one-shot, free verse poem I wrote a long time ago about Angel's life and how he affects others. Could be a QUOTES RESOURCE CENTER for the most heart-warming quotes from seasons one and two. Please READ and REVIEW, it won't take you more than fifteen minutes, I promise.
Author's Note: There are Angel quotes used in this poem enclosed by these //...//.
-=o=-
ETERNITY
-
//"I felt your heartbeat..."//
In the empty room
Deep inside your soul
Don't you wish there was something there?
Something beating...
Something alive...
-
Two centuries had already passed
And you're still here
Are you not?
Roaming the streets in an endless existence
Watching, observing and experiencing
Pain, misery and suffering
Watching death do it's work
-
And here you are still
Still watching...
Still waiting...
Waiting for something you're not sure of
//"To Shanshu..."//
It might not even happen
It might not even exist
And yet you still try
-
//"The road to redemption is a rocky path"
"Think we might make it?"
"We might..."//
And try as hard as you might
The end of the road is still unseen
The road to redemption is a rocky path
And you wonder if you might make it
Many wonders the same
And these are the peopkle you cannot blame
These are the ones who willingly gave
Their live, love
Dreams and hopes
//"I thought I was out of the tunnel... The light was so bright I thought I was already out..."//
"It's going to be a long while 'till you work your way out, but I know you well enough to know you will. And I'll be there until you do."//
To also find the light at the end
Of the longest and hardest tunnel
You've ever had to defend
-
//"That man will do anything to save a life..."//
You know how it is
To give up everything for nothing
-
To care and to be cared
//"I'll get you back Cordy... I need you back."//
-
To love and to be loved
//"I'll never forget... I'll never forget... I'll never forget..."//
-
To betray and to be betrayed
//"You're all fired."//
-
To hurt and be hurt
//"I have someone in my life now. That I lvoe. It's not what you and I had, it's very new. You know what makes it new? I trust him... I know him..."//
//"That's great. It's nice. You moved on. I can't. You found someone new, I'm not allowed to remember? I see you agian, it cuts me up inside. And the person I share that with is me. You don't know me anymore, so don't come down here with your great new life and expect me to do things your way. Go home."//
-
And you finally get it
//"All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because-- I don't think people should suffer as they do. Because if there is no bigger meaning, the the smallest act of kindness-- is the greatest thing in the world."//
The purpose of your endless existence
You may never see the light
You may never get to the end
But at least you know
You felt...
-
How it is to make a difference
How it is to change
How you think...
How you feel...
-
How it is to bring hope
When you are so close to giving up
-
//"And you ought to do that more often."//
"Buy you food?"
"Smile."//
How it is to bring joy
When you can barely laugh
-
//"Well, you know... love is a fire. I burns you-- alive, down to the bone. And then it turns the bone to ash."//
How it is to bring love
When you have already crashed and burned
-
When you see all these
It doesn't really matter
If you ever see the sun shine
If you ever see the long-awaited light
As long as you try to make amends
Even though redemption is yet unseen
And through your unbeating heart you know
What others may have been too bline to see
-
It doesn't matter if you make it or not
It doesn't matter if you go to heaven or to hell to rot
-
What matters is that you've helped
The ones who needed help
-
That you've saved
The ones who needed to be saved
-
And that you love
The one that really needed to be loved...
-=o=-
~ FIN ~
REVIEW PLEASE!
Author: Althea
Summary: Just a one-shot, free verse poem I wrote a long time ago about Angel's life and how he affects others. Could be a QUOTES RESOURCE CENTER for the most heart-warming quotes from seasons one and two. Please READ and REVIEW, it won't take you more than fifteen minutes, I promise.
Author's Note: There are Angel quotes used in this poem enclosed by these //...//.
-=o=-
ETERNITY
-
//"I felt your heartbeat..."//
In the empty room
Deep inside your soul
Don't you wish there was something there?
Something beating...
Something alive...
-
Two centuries had already passed
And you're still here
Are you not?
Roaming the streets in an endless existence
Watching, observing and experiencing
Pain, misery and suffering
Watching death do it's work
-
And here you are still
Still watching...
Still waiting...
Waiting for something you're not sure of
//"To Shanshu..."//
It might not even happen
It might not even exist
And yet you still try
-
//"The road to redemption is a rocky path"
"Think we might make it?"
"We might..."//
And try as hard as you might
The end of the road is still unseen
The road to redemption is a rocky path
And you wonder if you might make it
Many wonders the same
And these are the peopkle you cannot blame
These are the ones who willingly gave
Their live, love
Dreams and hopes
//"I thought I was out of the tunnel... The light was so bright I thought I was already out..."//
"It's going to be a long while 'till you work your way out, but I know you well enough to know you will. And I'll be there until you do."//
To also find the light at the end
Of the longest and hardest tunnel
You've ever had to defend
-
//"That man will do anything to save a life..."//
You know how it is
To give up everything for nothing
-
To care and to be cared
//"I'll get you back Cordy... I need you back."//
-
To love and to be loved
//"I'll never forget... I'll never forget... I'll never forget..."//
-
To betray and to be betrayed
//"You're all fired."//
-
To hurt and be hurt
//"I have someone in my life now. That I lvoe. It's not what you and I had, it's very new. You know what makes it new? I trust him... I know him..."//
//"That's great. It's nice. You moved on. I can't. You found someone new, I'm not allowed to remember? I see you agian, it cuts me up inside. And the person I share that with is me. You don't know me anymore, so don't come down here with your great new life and expect me to do things your way. Go home."//
-
And you finally get it
//"All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because-- I don't think people should suffer as they do. Because if there is no bigger meaning, the the smallest act of kindness-- is the greatest thing in the world."//
The purpose of your endless existence
You may never see the light
You may never get to the end
But at least you know
You felt...
-
How it is to make a difference
How it is to change
How you think...
How you feel...
-
How it is to bring hope
When you are so close to giving up
-
//"And you ought to do that more often."//
"Buy you food?"
"Smile."//
How it is to bring joy
When you can barely laugh
-
//"Well, you know... love is a fire. I burns you-- alive, down to the bone. And then it turns the bone to ash."//
How it is to bring love
When you have already crashed and burned
-
When you see all these
It doesn't really matter
If you ever see the sun shine
If you ever see the long-awaited light
As long as you try to make amends
Even though redemption is yet unseen
And through your unbeating heart you know
What others may have been too bline to see
-
It doesn't matter if you make it or not
It doesn't matter if you go to heaven or to hell to rot
-
What matters is that you've helped
The ones who needed help
-
That you've saved
The ones who needed to be saved
-
And that you love
The one that really needed to be loved...
-=o=-
~ FIN ~
REVIEW PLEASE!