Susan Shea

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I met up with her in Walmart’s. She is a tiny

old lady. I know she is a real angel.

As silly as that sounds, I knew it when she first

took my hand in hers when we were looking

at flowering plants. She said, look at us, 

both loving God’s creations. I don’t hate you,

and you don’t hate me. Look at us.

We looked at each other with tears in our eyes.

I loved her then, and every time

I remember that day.

Imagine if that moment was caught on the news.

A middle-aged white woman and an old black angel 

falling in love with each other and with God

while considering the lilies of the valley together.

Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who lives in a forest in Pennsylvania.  She has been published in several journals including Ekstasis, The Bluebird Word, and The Agape Review.  Recently Susan has had poems accepted for Last Stanza Poetry Journal, The Bookends Review, Poetry Breakfast, and four anthologies.