Poems (Bacon)/Heaven

by Josephine Daskam Bacon

For works with similar titles, see Heaven.

VI. HEAVEN

She says that when we all have died
We 'll walk in white there (then she cried)
All free from sorrow, sin, and care—
But I 'm not sure I 'd like it there.

She cannot tell me what we 'll do,
I couldn't sing the whole day through:
The angels might not care to play,
Or else I might n't like their way.

I never loved my Uncle Ned,
So I can't love him now he 's dead.
He'd be the only one I know—
She says it 's wicked to talk so.

I 'd like to see how God would look,
I 'd like to see that Judgment Book:
But pretty soon I 'd want to be
Where the real people were, you see.

When people turn dead in a dream,
I wake up, and I scream and scream:
And since they 're all dead there, you know,
I 'm sure that I should feel just so!