A Peek at Heaven

so what's with the mortal coil thing?

A Peek at Heaven

 

In the last instant before the doorway opens

bathing its entry in heaven’s white light,

before those first steps into the tunnel,

is there a warning of worlds colliding?

 

When he nearly died at forty-eight,

his heart stopped and paddled three times

as the EMTs fought to keep him on this side,

he remarked at seeing no white light.

 

I can’t ask him how it went the last time

when he closed the door behind him

but he’d told us of my uncle’s ghost

standing silent at bedside just weeks before.

 

I’ve no yen for one way tickets

to places with no direct calls home

just to know where my dad sits now,

or even where my soul harkens from.

 

But I confess curiosity

short of killing that clever cat

to sponge some little knowledge stream

whose source is heaven’s peak.

 

© 2009 David P. Eckert

 

Reviews

[Shannon.]

Very interesting, it's well written too. I get a little confused about heaven sometimes too.