My Heaven

Nothing shatters and nothing breaks

Nothing hurts and nothing aches

We got ourselves one hell of a place in my Heaven

Looking down at the world below

I'm unsure why the fighting shows

Up here we got none of those in my Heaven

There's pools and lakes and hills and mountains

Music, art, lighted fountains

Who need bucks here, no one's countin' in my Heaven

No one works, we all just play

You can pick the weather every day

And if you change your mind, that's okay

In my Heaven Grandma's up here, Grandpa too

In a condo with a to-die-for view

There's presidents and movie stars

You just come as you are

No one's lost and no one's missing

No more parties, just hugs and kissing

And all these stars are just fruition in my Heaven

There's little white lights everywhere

Your childhood dog in Dad's old chair

And more memories than my heart can hold

That leave us singing Field of Gold

There's neighbors, thieves and long lost lovers

Villans, poets, kings and mothers

Up here we forgive each other in my Heaven

For every soul that's down there waiting

Holding on, still hesitating,

We say a pray of levitate in my Heaven

You can look back on your life a lot

It can't matter what you're not

By the time you're here

We're all we've got

In my Heaven.

January 1, 2006.

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words by Mary Chapin-Carpenter.