AURAS

His whiskey soaked eyes, blood shot and blurry,
watched the street light auras glow in hazy amber fire
while swerving down the midnight street,
DUI’s and rehab hadn’t curtailed his nightly bar bouts,
until he passed out and collided with car
driven by mother with her young daughter.

In the hospital, his bruised body was tended to by all the nursing angels,
seeing their white outlines as if heaven sent in the fluorescent lights,
but the one golden silhouette that would haunt him forever in guilt
belonged to that accident cherub that now wore God’s eternal circle of light.