Jusr To See You As You Are Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

JUST TO SEE YOU AS YOU ARE

would we give up all visions

just to see You

in the corner of our eye

the shade of green going by

a childhood shoal

why are people so afraid of You

I wonder and wonder again

who wouldn't want you for a Friend

if there was even the most remote

possibility

at least we know

we didn't make the world

nor did anyone we know

going back as far in history

as it is permitted us to go

no world makes itself

to taste the salt of your stars

would be a fine thing

to kneel in the heart

that thought of Spring

but oh.

most of all

to see you as you are

to banish doubt forever

and the wayward way

and return to the garden

we left on such bad terms

in disarray

this time, going

straight through an open gate.

Lord God.

could this be learned;
would You wait?

, mary angela douglas 17 january 2018