A new heaven on earth

I believe there is a new world

it does not live very far from this world

we are living in now

All it depends upon

for its birthing

is a change of perspective

a realisation of the mistake we make

In hoping for life to be scar free

and perfect

erased of life’s blemishes we were told

are are only pimples

marring the fresh face of existence

Sad to think how immersed we become

inside this trance

that we totally lose the path to

unconditional peace

Why is it so hard for us to

tend the broken pieces

to kneel and humbly embrace and change

The things that keep us blind and numb?

Why do we demand others be different

or that our life must be perfect

for us to love it?

Why can’t we look deeper than just the surface?

Do we really know the complex ins and outs

Of another’s life?

Are ‘they’ really guilty

Or just a defended lost and confused

Chasing just as we are

that illusive ‘happiness’

forgetting the way to a richer life

arises from seeds of despair

that reveal our wrong turnings?

What will it take for us to

give up the old way?

What will it take for us to see

the moment is now

the blessing is now?

For the future is but an illusion

and so often following the twisted path

that leads us deep into the pain of the past

keeps us lost

followed too long

leads only to dead end confusions

Is there not a better way

just to allow and bless it all

and learn the necessary lessons

from within the decay?

Perhaps this blessing

is the benediction

that makes it possible

for us to embrace a new way of living

one that leads us to union

with the unfolding

of a new heaven on earth

hand in hand as brother and sister

seeking a better way.