To You, Wherever You Are Walking Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

to you whenever you are walking
underneath the starry or
the starless skies

where fountaining trees cast

flowers before you
where your kindness may be suddenly

not mirrored by passersby

to you

whenever you are
waking or sleeping

whether you dream of
the end or the beginning
whether you are clothed in

light or sudden confusion
whenever you are at

the entrance or the exit

may you stand always

in the circumference
of so many angels-

mary angela douglas 30 august 2007; 27 september 2023