Angels & Demons

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Looking for blue to peek through the hazy skies lately. Along my way I've been thinking about the Ukrainian girl who traveled to America for safety and ended up dead due to a stranger's violent psychotic act. Angels sent her from her homeland believing in safer outcomes but something demonic found her regardless. And tragically no angels helped the mother calling/pleading for help for her mentally ill son before he became a killer. I have no explanation why bad things happen to innocent people, just a poem that ponders the coexistence of good and evil, each causing random ripple effects from which we cannot detach.

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  1. DeniseinVASeptember 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM

    My heart cries for this young lady, for such a thing to happen to such a sweet soul after she has gone through so much, beyond comprehension. Your words never cease to amaze me, your poem? Powerful! Thank you also for these beautiful images, I find them very soothing.

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