Heaven

 

 

 (Picture Credit - Thomas Cole: Garden of Eden - Games blog)

 

According to the Bible there is

“Heaven”

A high place where all good people go

When their Life’s innings is over.

But Bad folk go down to “Hell” –

To suffer “bottomless perdition”.

 

Yet we only have to look up

At the morning or evening sky

To see Planet Hell:

It’s the brightest “star” of all:

Venus!

 

And I believe

That out there amongst that ocean of stars

There is a so called “Exoplanet”

In a distant solar system

Like ours

Perhaps twice as big as Earth:

A sub-tropical world

With ice only at the very poles

And on lofty mountain tops.

 

I see a place of endless forest

Filled with butterflies

And songbirds.

Grassy plains too,

Roamed by alien buffalo.

Oceans teeming with fish

And dolphins

And colourful corals.

 

A world untroubled

By killing

Or pollution.

Dotted with tiny villages

Only

With peaceful inhabitants

Basking in afternoon suns.

 

I picture a utopian paradise

Shangri-la

Or what you will.

Another Eden,

Or if you prefer

Simply

Heaven.

 

Paul Butters

 

© PB 28\12\2020.

 

Another one for Norman Stevens.