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Take an Angel by the Wings by TheOceanIsMyInkwell
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Marvel Cinematic Universe
01 Sep 2018
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Summary
Peter gulps and blinks. His lashes catch the moonlight with the glint of broken tear drops. May has the sudden urge to scream at whatever poet ever decided that such sorrow was a beauty to be romanticized.
“I had to stop and sit down. It was a, it was a roof. I’ve--I don’t know. I had to think, I guess. Couldn’t really think.”
The tears won’t stop. They’re flowing and flowing and oh, God, they won’t stop.
May remembers when she read the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead in fifth grade. She remembers it so vividly because the nun taught her yet another unforgettable thing: the story contains the shortest verse in the Bible.
Jesus wept.
She thinks about that little fact every now and then, to this day. It returns to her at full force as she continues to stand there watching her son at arm’s length with wetness flooding his cheeks, overriding his consciousness, and May thinks about how the Bible, for all its mighty poetics in the books of Psalms and Isaiah, afforded none of those metaphorical descriptions to Jesus’ tears.
Because there’s nothing beautiful about them, May tells herself. Why do we fool ourselves with the notion that there are kaleidoscopes in mourning?
Series
- Part 2 of Angels Among Us