Soeur Marie Emelie"<br /><br />Soeur Marie Emelie<br />is little and very old:<br />her eyes are onyx,<br />and her cheeks vermilion,<br />her apron wide and kind<br />and cobalt blue.<br /><br />She comforts<br />generations and generations<br />of children,<br />who are <br />"new"<br />at the convent school.<br />When they are eight,<br />they are already up to her shoulder,<br />they grow up and go into the world,<br />she remains,<br />forever,<br />always incredibly old,<br />but incredibly never older...<br />She has an affinity with the hens,<br />When a hen dies,she sits down on a bench and cries,<br />she is the only grown-up, whose tears <br />are not frightening tears.<br />Children can weep without shame, <br />at her side...<br />Soeur Marie Emelie...<br />her apron as wide and kind<br />as skies on a summer day<br />and as clean and blue.