We Who Are Subject To Mirages Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

we who are subject to mirages
to the fluttering of failing wings
of the small things

so prone to disappear
we need you near oh God
in our tiny rooms

making do with scraps
for curtains unable to bear
the View.

and losing, losing, lost
we bear the cost of our clouded
then occluded dreams till

oh from our windows and at
the very sills at times
we long for some release

where somehow Beauty never ceases
flowing in waves from ever
your weeping hands.

then snows visit us and erase
our solitary tracks
when we look back

and light your Light
comes to our cages
and we see, oh

benign and gleaming:
the shadows of your angels;
not the bitter facts.

mary angela douglas 6 june 2015