HEAVEN RIGHT HERE

HEAVEN RIGHT HERE

WRITTEN BY JEFF R HILTON

NOVEMBER 2018

THE SKIES TURNED BLACK

AND FILLED WITH RAIN

SOME RAN FOR COVER

WHILE OTHERS WERE LED

SOME DIDN'T CARE

LOOKED BLANKLY AHEAD

WHILE STILL OTHERS

JUST LOOKED UP AT THE SKY

A SMILE ON THEIR FACES

FULL OF WONDER AND WHY

PATIENTLY WAITING

FOR THE END OF THE STORM

STANDING THERE SHIVERING

TRYING TO KEEP WARM

WELL IT WASN'T LONG

THE SKIES BEGAN TO CLEAR

EVERYONE SHOUTED

THERE'S A RAINBOW HERE

AS THEY STARED ON

IN AWE OF THE SIGHT

 THE COLORS SO

 VIVID AND BRIGHT

THE RAYS OF THE SUN

RETURNED TO THE DAY

EVERYONE SEEMED GRATEFUL

EVEN IF IN SOME SMALL WAY

DUSK CAME

I WATCHED IT FALL

ON STREETS EMPTY

AND SILENT

A CONTRAST TO THE DAY

THE MOON SHOWS ITS FACE

ALONGSIDE THE STARS

INDIFFERENT TO 

THE SCENES BELOW

EXCEPT TO LEND A GLOW

THE WIND PICKED UP

I SWEAR IT CRIED

JOINED THE WAVES

DROVE THE TIDE

CRASHING INTO SHORE

A TASTE, A TEASER FOR MORE

HEAVEN RIGHT HERE

I DREAM, I YEARN

I HOLD, I NEED THIS

WOULDN'T WANT TO MISS

EARTH AND SKY

THE FREEDOM AFFORDED

THE WHERE THE WHY

THE REASONS MY HEARTS

TIED TO YOU

 I NEED THIS

HEAVEN RIGHT HERE

I FACE MY FEARS 

THE YEARS GONE BY

WHY LIE

ONE TOO MANY FOOLS

DON'T PLAY FAIR

NOT BY THE RULES

I SEE, I FEEL

I PRAY, I KNEEL

I GIVE, I TAKE

I LAUGH, I CRY

THE INSIDE OF A SOUL

PROGRAMMED ONLY TO SURVIVE

JUST ONE HOPE IN IT ALL

TO COME OUT ALIVE