The Lease I Did Not Sign Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

to be subservient

to let you knock me down like a small clown doll

to hide in corners


to hold my tongue when there is wrong

and not to believe in my own song

I never signed these rights away


i have never agreed to be your slave

whoever you are wherever you may be now

I bow only to God


though I DO wish you well.

I wish you may know God strew our path with flowers


but the Enemy doesn't will us to know

that it was for us God chose these greens and blues

the scent of the year brand new oh April passing into May


I will not deny You I will not say that

Beauty does not call us forever along the way

though I lose title and deed


to everything the landlords promised

from the first day.


mary angela douglas 2 may 2020