The Evidence Of The Stars

the myriad arguments for God can fade away
we have
the evidence of the stars

the miracle of who you are or could be
the starry spokes that drive
The Carriage Invisible

in the fairy tales
what men have dreamed in jails
not of their own making

and coded cell to cell, communicated
so that the Holy Ghost sang
in the tree of night for

nothing at all well into our married dawns
let go the silver and the gold
and all the stories told of

the snowed in shortcuts
to Aladdin's caves
it is Christ who saved, who saves

who will save again
the memories of the birth of starlight
outside and within

the galaxies wheeling the Axis of all feeling
the reeling evidence of Light
against all odds.

mary angela douglas 3 march 2018