Moment Of Redemption

~~Moment of Redemption

 Lay in the garbage and the excrement
 of life’s wasteland .
 I was half sober again.
 I saw her then.
 The beautiful Angel looked down at me.
 She had tears in her eyes.
 I trembled in my drunken sobriety.
 She knelt beside me in the slime.
She held my head in her arms.
 Like a friend not an Angel.
 She said are you not sick and tired
 of this pit of despair?
 Must you go on forever
 like you never heard
 the tiny whispering
 voice inside you?
 I froze with the fear
 that meant I must change.
 So frightened.
 I could not answer her.
 As if she did not need an answer
 She knelt in the
 filth and slime next to me.
 And prayed for me.
 Then she left.
 As I struggled
for the very first time to
 free myself from this pit.