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As if I were an angel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2013

William Breitbart
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Poetry/Fiction: Poems
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Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 11 , Issue 5 , October 2013, pp. 447
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 
It's as if I were an angel
flying through the clouds.
As if that could be.
Me.
An angel.
As if there could be a future
I could not know.
A future without death
being the end,
but a beginning.
As if that could be.
Me.
An angel.
A lapsed Jewish angel
with wings to fly.
As if I would transcend
what I ever could have imagined.
Me.
As if that could possibly be
Me,
An angel.
Not alone.
But with other angels.
Angels like me
who never imagined
love beyond limits