PINK AND BLUE THE BIRTHDAY PARTY MAZE

 

PINK AND BLUE THE BIRTHDAY PARTY MAZE

Pink and blue the birthday party maze

Sunlit are the arbors where

The children play games in the sunlight

While the grownups watch from lawn chairs

Sipping their minted iced tea, with its pitcher

Full of lemon wedges pour again my heart thirsts 

To remember this

And in the painting of the moment’s reflection

We see mirrored a future where

Wild strawberries grow over the maze in which

The grown children were turning and spires on the horizon shift

The stage mechanism the clouds fade the scene fades out to pearl as if we were shifted to the underside of the world

Was it all a dream the grown children murmur not yet grown into their

majority

And for the refurbished stars in Heaven angels will come out

To mend again when we with secret weeping depart the Garden

In the maze we may call life again

When the pastels reemerge

And the sunlight dapples the lemon grass

The child in your soul at festivals again

The earth gleaming

And so, oh my friends, redeemed

the clouds hung out on the clothesline to air dry.

mary angela douglas 6 june 2024