it has all broken into pieces did you sob
the china fragments at your feet
in the fairy twinkle gloom
of our blue room
and the consequences terrible
because, as yet, unknown.
as yet unknown your crystal heart
broke with it
as if you had broken a world.with all its rainbows.
not broken, the world, at least,
not by you who are
not yet cognizant of the fractured world
you almost live in
shielded there at home.
look we will sweept it up
cried the angels
not knowing what else to do.
in Divine consternation
and another child by your side
sure to be me
said please don't cry.
we will make a puzzle out of it someday
and all the pieces will fit.
and then you laughed
small sunrise that you were then.
when you were happy.
mary angela douglas 17 june 2018
the china fragments at your feet
in the fairy twinkle gloom
of our blue room
and the consequences terrible
because, as yet, unknown.
as yet unknown your crystal heart
broke with it
as if you had broken a world.with all its rainbows.
not broken, the world, at least,
not by you who are
not yet cognizant of the fractured world
you almost live in
shielded there at home.
look we will sweept it up
cried the angels
not knowing what else to do.
in Divine consternation
and another child by your side
sure to be me
said please don't cry.
we will make a puzzle out of it someday
and all the pieces will fit.
and then you laughed
small sunrise that you were then.
when you were happy.
mary angela douglas 17 june 2018
