God in Heaven

God in Heaven

Sometimes moments of sadness bring out the deepest and most passionate of our creative inner thoughts.

Laura hasn’t had an easy winter. Illness being one factor and the early death of two young people in her circle of friends. One, was a suicide.

She had an English assignment, and insisted she wouldn’t ever be able to write a poem. I had resigned myself to a fight to the finish.

Then, one morning, (apparently she had been up til 4 am), I woke up to her pointing to the table, “There’s my poem.”

I was rather surprised, but quickly picked it up. It was very obvious she couldn’t dismiss the early death of a friend very easily. She wrote her feelings:

God Up in Heaven

This is for people
Who want to take
Their lives in their own hands,
Who think
No one understands,
There is a God up in Heaven,
Friends and family on earth,
That would never ever want
To see you hurt.
So if you think your life
Is going no where,
And everything is unstable,
There is a God up in Heaven
Who is able.

Written by Laura Lopez