MEADOW FLOWERS YOU HAVE PLANTED AT OUR FEET

 

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

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