All Prayers Under The Sun Came Down To This One

sometimes the heart drifts crosswise against the sun
in a dream in which there's nothing to be done
sometimes the heart.

is still and thinks it has died
when desolate news comes to it,
before Eastertide

and life is not alive oh then
the heart could fall from great distances
never to be revived

foundering on the cliffs with none to see.
oh God please rescue me Who alone
know all that can be done

to wreck the heart before the dawn had come.

mary angela douglas 4 november 2019