Poems (Barker)/Where is Heaven

by Alice J. Green Barker

"Where is Heaven?"

Ask me not my friend to tell you
 Where the wondrous country lies;
Ask me not to solve the mystery,
 Answered only from the skies.
Where? I know not often reaching
 Out my hand in mute despair
Echos from my soul the question,
 Cannot some one tell me "where?"

Only when my heart is saddest
 Does the answer ever come;
When the clouds have slowly drifted
 From the lovely blue arched dome,
Then I feel a gentle presence,
 Kike an answer to my player,
"Search the soul that God has given,
 You will find the answer there."

"Human wisdom cannot tell us,
 Angels only hold the key,
They unlock the spirits portal
 Open wide for you and me,
And they say that spring of beauty
 Welleth from a fountain fair,
Sparkling in a land called Heaven;
 Heaven is near us, everywhere.

"Love and Truth are guardian angels,
 Bending o'er earth's children here,
Sent by Him who never sleepeth.
 Making earthly ties more dear."
Then the voice grows faint and fainter,
 Life assumes its look of care,
Dimmer grows the happy vision
 And my own soul echos "where?"