MEADOW FLOWERS YOU HAVE CAUSED TO GROW AT OUR FEET
Meadow flowers you have caused to grow at our feet
Clouds you have massed and coloured fantastically
Above our heads
Trees you have made to show to us rootedness in the earth
And how to branch dreaming among the stars
How is it that we imagine you do not love us
That you do not care what happens
That you wound the watch and forgot it
You never rose up against us in our infancy
In the infancy of your world
Oh that we were still in Eden
There are times on earth in a honeyed light
We suddenly feel that we are
Breathing with you again the emerald air as it was there
Again, You dazzle us.
Without you we would have remained dust or utter nothingness
You did not take the rainbow from the sky
Your imprint fingerprint from our inmost souls
Without you without you
Oh how can we most gracious Lord God
You who have flung your wild and pure heart
Into the universe, in beautiful anguish
For us in this maelstrom, ever be whole
Come back, to plant the lilies in our souls
in the new Jerusalem.
mary angela douglas 23 june 2024;26 june 2024
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