Tuesday, January 12, 2021

No One Is Going Away

in Heaven no one is going away.

no suitcases packed.no luggage racks.

no lace handkerchiefs waved at the station

no passengers sorrowful, fearful at looking back

lest the weeping never stop

sunset and sunrises coinciding

in the same golden drop 

the roses, picked and placed in a vase

will never fade nor the sheep in intense green meadows

ever ever stray. fresh strawberries every day!

and in the looking glass you fear no more to gaze.

in Heaven no one is going away

not even the clouds 

not the young grass nor April's green

nor all that we had heard or seen which we relive again

sweetly world without end nostalgia becomes a fixed point

the heart has all its loves forever

and of all things one could say about the after life

how can there be anything more to be said than that

after you're dead and arrayed in celestial form

no one is going away from you.

ever. anymore.


mary angela douglas 12 january 2021

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