Sunday, July 21, 2019

Valediction To My Mother, Mary Adalyn Young-Douglas

God be with you now, my mama
every step of the starry way
though the world we had not, mama;

be the Greater World
one day.
time with sundry trials still passes

some have died
for what they prayed
I will endure for all you taught me

through the crooked
fairy tale way.
scorn and daily crushing set us

like two jewels in God's own band
though the world has more to notice
still I press on, while I can

one day to see clear again
the purpose both of us kept close
though the earth with all its gardens

lock its gates with bars of snow.
farther on  I would be going
farther on through glacial night

till we find the brighter Kingdoms
all the poems of His delight.

mary angela douglas july 21 2019

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