I Do Not Believe

I do not believe

I do not believe in heaven
Where eternal rest applies
Where perpetual light
Would rob me
Of rest reason and sanity
Tell me no such lies.

I am
Alive
I pulsate and throb
To the restless beat
Of an Universe.
Immensity endless
Folding and unfolding
Into itself...
Where Space and Time
Are dual acts of grace.

Myself
Am motion.
Dynamic and daring
In endlessly spinning
Quest for perfection.

A solvent and solution
A constant and the
Entire equation,
A prayer
Am I.

So when
My allotted time
In earthly garb of
flesh and blood is over

I seek no heaven.

Heaven is my footstool
Upon this earth
And many more.
Heaven is my heart
Its beat the resonance
Of a cosmic core.

I am hope
Happiness
Most complete
Even when every atom
And particle
Disintegrates.

Let me make blue skies
Let me paint lakes green

Let me be the loveliest vision
Human eyes have ever seen.

And when time allows
And tides permit
Let me roll out to caress
New shores

Perhaps you will
Take of your shoes
And touch to your
Fingertips
My soul electric
And feel me evermore.

Prayer am I
On cosmic page
Of life

Ray am I
Of the suns
Of countless worlds

And over and over again
I come alive

In more ways than dreamt
Upon this earthly
Walk of life.

(c) Amrita Valan 2016