Heaven Is In Your Mind

Don’t believe me…the band, Traffic,

sang a song about it…wanna hear it?

They weren’t the only ones…didn’t 

the Bible say something about that?

Certainty might as well should have.

You have actually been there, present,

undistracted at times. 

Those are the moments we remember;

that afternoon barbecue at Uncle Ed’s,

the perfectly cold delicious beer you

hadn’t had for quite some time, yum!

When you gave the speech as 

Valedictorian, your favorite teacher’s

compliment, the look on your dad’s face.

Sitting with your daughter in your arms

right after she was born.

Having a cigarette outside the building 

where you used to have a job but you 

just got fired…

you’ve been there.

You could be here,

right now, 

any moment, 

why wait?

What are you waiting for?

Mr. Fantasy, play us a tune, something 

snappy that will make us all see reality,

not the stupid made up nonsense 

they call the world today!

I want rain, flowers, trees, cobblestone

streets, people I can see in front of me,

even if I don’t particularly like them I’ll

shake their hands or say hello because 

they’re there! Your mind is there! That’s 

where Heaven is!

“Humanity I love you because you

are perpetually putting the secret of

life in your pants and forgetting 

it’s there and sitting down.”

eecummings

And so it goes, Heaven right there,

anywhere at all…but you can’t hold

onto it either…sorry…but what you

can do is let go of everything else.