While My Heart Smiles-a poem

[jankp]

This is my annual Christmas poem for friends and family as well as the title poem to my play/novelette Spirits In Limbo. Feedback is most welcome.


is this almost heaven? could paradise be grasped?
am i just sleeping and filled with my dreaming?
it's like i'm not real, yet i feel so alive;
time has stopped all around me while my heart smiles.

suddenly no fear, no suffering or pain;
christmas forever the way that it should be.
so am i a visitor or have i passed on
to a more beautiful world while my heart smiles?

but perhaps, you are saying, i am only in love
and i shall wake up and find i'm in heartache;
if that were so, then god let me down
for he's the reason i'm here while my heart smiles.

it may be more likely that i am between worlds,
that i am caught in a transit, a spiritual limbo.
where shall i go, can i have some advice?
i'm asking you, god, while my heart smiles.

and your bewildering reply seems like a challenge;
perhaps there's no answer, but only a dream,
only a magical feeling of not knowing my future
and not being worried while my heart smiles.


Jan Peregrine 2001

[lanaia74]

VERY well done!