our poet geoffrey owens….

I Saw in Heav’n

{for the children slain in Newtown, Connecticut}

I saw in Heav’n a famous man

Who’d done some famous things.

He’d built great buildings with a plan –

The kind of plan that great fame brings

And makes us humans proud.

I saw in Heav’n a lovely dame

Who’d lived a lovely life.

She’d done some things worthy of fame –

The kind of fame nor grief nor strife

Could ever wholly shroud.

I saw in Heav’n a band of kids

Who’d gone one day to class.

And with some sleep still on their lids,

All score of them, each lad and lass,

Had landed on a cloud.

-Geoffrey Owens

December 19^th, 2012