When Angels Cry

When Angels Cry

As the infant dies so slowly on an abandoned street

As the orphan girl stumbles down the street and falls

As the young soldier watches his best friend die too soon

As the lost child works in tears at a hopeless cause

As the young adolescent finally gives up and slowly drowns

As the boy looks on sadly at the life he will never have

Then is the time that the Angels stop their eternal flight,

fold back their wings gently with tears in their angelic eyes

and look to the heavens for help that cannot be given,

And cry.