Maybe You Will Be Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

(for Katherine Laws, who brings things to Light)

toddling toward daylight
maybe you will be
children whom I cannot see

being farther behind you in Time...
even in caves of ebony
darkness sans the jewel work of Aladdin

making your labyrinthine way
seeking even without knowing
deeper wells than we could find.

oh I hope though it may seem
as life goes on, you travel blind
still you may read the braille work on

our tombs, (the designs in more than random snowfall)
who wished for you
what you could not wish for yet yourselves

just beginning to take the books down from the shelf
wanting to know what the fairy tale is all about
that you are in: choose faith, not doubt

the heart that sees

what History leaves out.
and even in midnight circumstance,
contrives to bring it to light!

mary angela douglas 6 december 2018