Rough Draft -- Bad News

[xluckiestx]

Bad News does not give you a warning before it strikes.
Bad News does not blow in from the coast,
But it can still hit you like a hurricane

Leaving devastation in its wake
For miles and miles
Despair... Nothingness...

Someone may say "I have some bad news,"
But that's not a real warning.
You have no time to prepare.
You cannot build a bomb shelter
Or do a fire drill.
You simply have to withstand the nuclear blast
And deal with whatever deformities arise after.

Bad News is the bully in gym class.
Bad News picks you out while you stand in the back of the dodge ball game
And hits you square in the stomach.

The wind is knocked out of your body
And you feel like you will never breathe again.
You join the long line of kids sitting out.

And you wait your turn
For someone to catch the ball
So you can rejoin the game.
Sometimes you have to catch the ball
Even if you don't know how
Or don't think you can do it.

Bad News will throw all it has at you
And you will rebound it
And save your team.

You have to.

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Also:
Types of Angels

• guardian
• messenger
• certain mythological creatures (Santa's elves, tooth fairy(ies), Easter bunny, etc.)
• death/birth
• ALSO -- there are actual classifications of angels already in existence, can use those