Angel

I don't understand love--
They cry over it,
They laugh because of it,
They die for it,
They live for it...
I don't understand love...
I don't understand them.

You created me
And sent me here,
To dwell in the midst of them.
For a hundred years,
Since the day I was born
Out of Your will,
I've observed how they lived--
I saw how they hated
And wanted and needed and smiled,
I saw how frail and weak
They are, but still
You've held them dear and
Considered them above us.
I don't understand them.

I've walked this earth
And have seen everything
There is to see.
But love is something
Out of my grasp.
I looked up at the sunrise
And questioned your knowledge,
Why create such a complicated emotion--
Where people cry and smile
At the same time.
Where they bleed
Not on the outside
But on the inside...
You were silent...

Then You led me to her,
And something inside of me
Started to move--
Like it was being unfolded,
Being revealed.
Like gears of a clock
Moving once more.
I was born without the ability
To feel and yet here I am,
Smiling...
I stood in front of her
And whispered softly in her ear:
"I've waited for a hundred years,
Walking the face of this earth,
Just to say to you that I love you."
Tears started sliding down my cheeks
Towards the smile forming on my lips.
I was hurting and smiling.
Finally I understood...