Thursday, August 27, 2020

The Lantern Bearer

when everything seems washed out by the floods

and all the colours of all things feel washed out too

and you stand watch with flickering lantern

over the bridge that is no more the ghost bridge

and see lost soldiers over the ridge

into the mists of where they were before plunging

and with their wild and stricken horses plunging

into the wars before world without end

dont you pray some angel comes with a radiant message

closing the door forever on all sorrows.

between right now and all tomorrows.


mary angela douglas 27 august 2020

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