That Once We Loved Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

Now they have laid to rest so negligently I think
The rose and the briar
And so thus it can be said
I no longer live
In the world that I desired
And gone is the lore of everything
They have banished in the name of whose dream
I cannot cannot glean
For lately I have heard in the wind
in tides of feeling never before
washed over the bridge that
The light we see from the stars
Is from the stars that long ago were dead
Or perhaps they live still
In storied song, in secret cherishing
in fingerpainted sighs I would have conjured
That they have dismissed as if children tardy to school
All the beloveds
That once we loved
That once we loved.
That still I adhere to.
mary angela douglas 12 august 2024