Salvation

Empty arms reaching
to a sky that opens
and reveals nothing.

The prayer of a lifetime
offered up,
with this last strength
to go on. . .

The words
fall into the vacuum
of space.

Forever lost-
this paradise.

Angels that whispered
in the night
have long since fallen
melting into a
puddle of
non-existence.

The dream of salvation
was only that.

False hope
in a world that
needed . . .
. . . something to believe in . . .