I wonder what heaven looks like. I wonder this as an atheist. Is it space, sailing among stars? Is it merely a concept, eternally to be determined, determined by fate? Is it the feeling you get when you forget and then remember the best day of your life? Is it not life after death, is it a place on earth? Is it a person? Is it you?
Posted in response to the challenge Wonder.
what do you do when you cross the sea without me?
on this warm night, I stand outside in the blue dark.
I wear a bathrobe over my pajamas
and old crocs that are faded purple
it's almost night on the Tyrrhenian Sea
homes glow like stars on the cliffside
and waves of green lap against the side of the boat
there is a storm approaching,
there is something about those eyes that kept me chained to this love
for they seemed to be the first that I couldn't see right through
as if rather than a window to your soul
they were a wall.
Comments
Gentle musings of the heart! I love this little piece. That you're able, absence religion, to reimagine heaven entirely for yourself is a beautiful thing (and I don't mean that in a condescending way in the slightest). The thought of heaven as a memory you can return to, of the best day of your life maybe, as you suggest, is very moving and struck a chord with me.
Thank you so much!!!
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