do we live,becoming the language of the beautiful
or hide under stones
fleeing His presence
in monotone content to get by
devoid of colours and all the whys
wherefores stashed
ccnforming to conform; avoid the lash
or at least, the gossips
demuring to be born and
saying no peacock grace
over His rainbow coded in the waterfall of tears
for all the listless years
not to understand
they skewed your music, being proud
where His footsteps bled into Space
am I allowed
given a trace of former majesty now
the little glow children try to replicate
in words or something
I want to say oh if I may
kicked out from job to job
at times, from place to place
even then
I don't know how, I didn't
to live discarding the beautiful language
or do we go on, filling in the blanks, a blank ourselves cast down
by every miscast word
that calls us out of place
obscuring the seeing Him face to Face
we were born with-
because the only thing we've learned
from all the jobs we earned is
a heart beaten down by clouds
and how to be afraid.
mary angela douglas 25 november 2018;rev. 23 january 2019
or hide under stones
fleeing His presence
in monotone content to get by
devoid of colours and all the whys
wherefores stashed
ccnforming to conform; avoid the lash
or at least, the gossips
demuring to be born and
saying no peacock grace
over His rainbow coded in the waterfall of tears
for all the listless years
not to understand
they skewed your music, being proud
where His footsteps bled into Space
am I allowed
given a trace of former majesty now
the little glow children try to replicate
in words or something
I want to say oh if I may
kicked out from job to job
at times, from place to place
even then
I don't know how, I didn't
to live discarding the beautiful language
or do we go on, filling in the blanks, a blank ourselves cast down
by every miscast word
that calls us out of place
obscuring the seeing Him face to Face
we were born with-
because the only thing we've learned
from all the jobs we earned is
a heart beaten down by clouds
and how to be afraid.
mary angela douglas 25 november 2018;rev. 23 january 2019
