The Sum Of What You Are Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

the voice you hear

from long ago

could be the voice

of all the snows

could be the light of all the stars

of all the feelings near or far

you felt just when

the world was new

until the sorrows

ransacked you

until the mornings cold and drear

deprived you of the voice you hear

at this late age of all the snows

of all the stars and meteor glows

of all the feelings near or far

you feel again

the door ajar

to take you from the sorrow here

that cut your heart from year to year

and lead you then through all the snows

away from all of hardship's blows

away from what you felt of fear

to One who loved you oh so dear

who made the snows who made the stars

who made the sum of what you are.


mary angela douglas 5 november 2019