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Heaven's Stair

Heaven will be whatever you make it, you see
  Dog-catchers down here will chase dogs up there
  Hog-butchers on Earth will slaughter hogs Upstairs
 
You choices down here  
  Seal your Fate up there
    Look before you leap
    If you'd ascend Heaven's stair  

Spend your day texting, twittering, playing video games
  Consecrate your energy to evanescent fame 
    You'll fritter away the Divine in your name
    Spend Eternity in pursuits quite lame  

Visit the sick, give alms to the poor
  Love the stranger, the widow and orphan for sure
    Extend them kindness, mercy, loving care
    Continue your Heavenly work ~ in Ethereal care

When it's all said and done, when the race is run, when your time has come
  Your abode in Heaven is what you create on Earth -- and then some 


           August 22, 2018

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Andrea Dietrich

August 23, 2018 at 8:42 AM

I like this very much, Gershon. I wonder if they have movie houses up there since I guess I spend so much time with movies, and I sure hope there are other poets so we can read each other's poems! By the way, I'll be gone a few days. You are so generous with comments, I wanted to let you and the others who visit me know this. I am bad with my cell phone so I probably won't get to Soup in the meantime

Gershon Wolf

August 23, 2018 at 5:37 PM

Andrea, I'll join you in the Heavenly Poets Society, (if I can sneak into Heaven, that is). Thank you for your encouragement, as always, and here's to a nice trip. Best wishes, Gershon