LIGHT SOMEHOW BLOSSOMS FROM A THOUSAND WOUNDS

light somehow blossoms from a thousand wounds

and this is poetry you say as the music flows away

and then resumes leaving a watermark you can't explain

tip the candle in the flame and read aloud or to yourself

or with hardly a sound at all

nothing in the universe will call to you more vividly

than the real thing

renouncing it all, notoriety or fame

let the secret cherished in you survive

and find the poetry in you

with each poem, more blazingly alive.

mary angela douglas  28 june 2023