They Stopped Speaking In Gold Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

they stopped speaking in gold
but I did not hold my tongue
or do what I was told
gold is the language of God I said
look at light.
for this I was punished
never sent anywhere again from the job agencies
I will raise my shade and I will not see the complicit world
but the one of silver and gold
the one that kept shining in the poetry of old and though,
they neglected it
thus and solely, they looked the other way, the moderns
the ones who have banished me.
who will not greet me even on the lawn.
one day I will enter into it the world beyond
my fairy foot lingering on this shore
and we will speak in gold
forevermore

mary angela douglas 4 october 2020