Disappointed Angel

It's not heroic getting crushed

Not by your councillor's campaign van

Still I got my wish

Sent above the dusty world;

No police, no taxes, no bribes

Never thought I could eat everything

Anything I want and never grow fat

Today I go anywhere on earth for free

No one sees you so you're never kicked

But I wanted to give

More than I could in my short life

Selling tea from a raspy rickshaw

Now I could help all

Yet those most in need don't want aid

I brought a man to his son-in-law

He stood and watched him drown

The pole I tossed thrown down the river

For students who could not pass their exams

I called out answers direct to their dreams

Formed clouds into correct responses

They kept playing games

When I brought rain to two villages

Three clans demanded the profits

Knifed each other and blasted the generator

Doing good never felt this bad

Finally I accompanied souls to heaven

Yet many did not wish to rise

Claimed they needed to kill their landlord

Woo the lost sweetheart of forgotten youth

When I showed these refusers the great light

They covered their eyes

Shouted it's not time

I often meet angels who weep like me

Horrified watching new made history

I was there, I saw it, now I'm erased?

Such thoughts dim your halo

It's no surprise life's a disappointment

Yet the afterlife may disappoint

Often I feel like laughing or screaming

Instead I do both

Rumor's around the boss wants a shake-up

Endless reincarnation until all we get it right

I can't guess how long that might take

Should I request a new imagination?