A Place

[I thought I would post this poem that I wrote almost two years ago, since this is sort of our "safe" artistic forum. I was inspired to write it while star-gazing one night off of my back deck (no surprise, since I love to star-gaze). This is the first poem that I've ever written for pleasure and that I was truly inspired to write; I have written other poems for school assignments that were merely that: a fulfillment of an assignment. Fused with my recent change of opinion on what Heaven is like, my love affair with the beauty of the stars has been a huge inspiration in quite a lot of my writing.]

A Place

Come with me to a place
Where distant stars are an intimate grace
A place
Where the scales have fallen from our eyes
We can’t see color, creed or race
A place
Where the earth would show us how to live
If we would listen, if we could taste
The infinite beauty of this place
With waterfalls and crescent moons
Crashing breakers and sandy dunes
Comet tails and fire flies
Sunset colors and stormy skies

Come with me to a place
Where roaring rivers are a calming grace
A place
Where soldiers lay their weapons down
The fighting ceases as peace they embrace
A place
Where all of nature will demonstrate
A perfect rhythm, a flawless pace
The infinite music of this place
With waterfalls and crescent moons
Crashing breakers and sandy dunes
Comet tails and fire flies
Sunset colors and stormy skies
All of this beauty for us to share
Free for the taking, found everywhere