1. Touched By An Angle
By Maya Angelou

2. We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight

3. live coiled in shells of loneliness

4. until love leaves its high holy temple

5. and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

6. Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies

7. ancient histories of pain.
old memories of pleasure

8. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

9. We are weaned from our timidity

10. In the flush of love's light
we dare be brave

11. And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.

12. which sets us free.
Yet it is only love