Our Numbered Days by Neil Hilborn

Our Numbered Days

The best way to get to heaven is to take it with you
                    Henry Drummond

Heaven isn't a place, it's a feeling
                    Sierra DeMulder

Heaven will be no place to me if I do not meet my wife there
                    Andrew Jackson

In many languages, the word for heaven is the same as the word for sky
                    Wikipedia

I will sing to you all the things myself from saying while we were alive
                    The author

All the way to heaven is heaven
                    St. Catherine of Siena

I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return
                     Frida Kahlo

The light dimmed, and the singing in his head stopped
                    Louise Erdrich

When my mother died, I will lead her
Like a dog into the spaces between
our walls which is just like the space
between here and always, the king
and the kingdom. I will lead her by the hand
if she be blind and I will wag my tail
against her kneesbif she be afraid
and I will leave her at the gate.

Life on earth will in some ways
be easier. I will not have to return
her phone calls. I will not have to feel
guilty when I want to hear no more
no more about the divorce. I won't cry
thought I will want to cry. Though I will hate myself
for not crying. When my mother dies,
if I am still alive, I will slouch
on my knees as though in prayer, I will
write one or two poems, then I will
no longer think of her