Angels Unawares
I did not notice
the large stranger
enter the mission.
Drunk and hostile,
he appeared before me,
as if an apparition,
his fist raised.
"Does God love me!?"
he shouted.
A strength not my own
canceled all my fear.
"Of course, and we do too."
I said.
He collapsed, weeping.
Bio:
Louie Clay, 77, is a retired teacher and lives in East Orange, NJ.
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