Sometimes It Is Difficult To Understand Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

sometimes it is difficult to understand

why a kind word merits no reply

why birds fly against the current of the wind

and the sky appears empty

I dont have a philosophy for this

I say to myself in quiet corners

looking out through the window at

the friendly trees which do seem

to hear me in the rustling of their leaves

why are the kind so often shunned

is the world that contrarian?

even in Heaven I will still be asking why

why were the cruel so prevalent

making others cry.

mary angela douglas 28 april 2021