Helen "HP" Rivers

Most days
I pray in poetry
And think in sermons

My whole life
Is a riddle
Every soul
A different rhyme

I preach
What I cannot practice
I cry
Words that are not mine

Amen
Is an affirmation
Heaven
Is a state of mind

What if we play
The what-if game
Because we know
Somehow
That every possibility
Is reality
In another place and time

Living is a sacrament
Heaven
Is a state of mind

I am already there –
Somewhere

I have already arrived.