Maurice Yvonne Poet Free verse

Heaven Is This

once,
maybe?
just once in a lifetime 
you touch,
brush,
less than a touch,

maybe just maybe
once in a lifetime
you are close enough to greatness
to almost feel it

but you don’t
because with greatness 
true greatness
comes 
humility.

the moment is one 
no one but you recognizes
it is a hug
from the person
who held up that sign
what seems now
like an eon ago.

the sign said

help!

you could have walked away
turned a blind eye
but
that person
without a word
is inside your head
the voice 
is clear
"it’s the right thing to do"
echoes in your mind 
as if your skull 
were the Grand Canyon

so,

you do it.

you sacrifice everything
and you do it.

you help

and when your deed is complete
when it is all said and done
that person hugs you
when it is all said and done
you hug that person

and for that moment
you feel less than space between you and it 
and you know it is greatness
but in your humility
as quick as you think it
it is gone.

but you are changed forever more
and you know
heaven is this
no high from any other source
will ever be the same

because

you’ve just stepped up 
the rungs of your ladder
and there is no crash 
from this high.

you are on a new plateau
and it is higher
and it is lower

because

with greatness
true greatness
comes humility.

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Andrea Dietrich November 27, 2014 at 9:45 AM By the way, came back here to say Happy Thanksgiving even though I know you do not celebrate it. hope you have a lovely day. they are having a kickbox class and having the gym open this morning. So I might as well go! I'm all caught up on comments. they closed the site last night, I am sure you noticed. I'm going to try to finally get my professional development report finished today. I've been saying that all week. OH MY!

Andrea Dietrich November 27, 2014 at 9:37 AM I notice the word humility is also appearing at the very bottom as the last word. You even SHOW us humility in its placement in the poem. Humility is everything, maurice, and for all your bravado, YOU are on that rung of the ladder of humility, which in my eyes, puts you at the top of it. this really speaks to your character. I am the only one to comment on this gem. I think I know you more every day! FAVE