Dirty Angels

"I always felt like an angel. Only an angel nobody wanted. I didn't like the idea of heaven, it was too perfect. Too much perfection for one who lived with scratches and on scraps. So I made noise and messed my hands. I said the wrong words to the right people and the right people left me. I kicked them down, with a push and a shove. And there they were, mud on their hearts, naked, broken. Yet still able to looked at me as if the fall was the only real choice. Angels who didn't care to prove themselves. Angels shining in the dirt with dignity and nothing left to lose. Then I realized that we are all angels, fallen, trying to make our way back to the heaven we had forgotten..."