When It Hurts To Walk, Dream Of Clouds Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

when it hurts to walk. dream of clouds
for so long floating about the Heavens
finding it so easy

sometimes dissolving, reappearing
multicoloured, a treat for the eye.
and you can be clouds too

and this is perhaps
why your feet don't work anymore,
the first sign that something is about to change

your ankles turning inward

or stand on one note patiently
in a vast music
little by little

you rise
o it won't be long
to the whole song

mary angela douglas 20 march 2016