Without Heaven

By: Ada Heller

I know

that when I die

I’ll sink into the soil

Be eaten by all the things I’ve eaten

Become the dirt for all to walk upon

I know that my thoughts are just neurons firing

That my heart is a collection of molecules

that happen to beat

but sometimes

I look into the sky

and wonder

how the sun manages

to hit everything

just right

There’s no way

a universe without heaven

can paint pictures like that

with just light