Heaven Is No Happenstance

Music: Six Fugues. No. 2 (Poco Allegro-Grazioso).
By Camille Saint-Saens.
Sequenced by Segundo G. Yogore at Kunst der Fuge.

Hear me read the poem:
As a .wav file
As an MP3 file

Alpha List

Christian
Poems

Easter Poems

Religious
Poems

Contents

Home

Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

Heaven is no happenstance,
As everybody knows.
Prayer leads to paradise;
Passion leads to blows.
Years and years of loving God,
Even when in pain,
And faith in Christ's great sacrifice
Simple hearts sustain.
Those who neither hope nor care
Exist in undisclosed despair,
Reasoning in vain.

[contents] [home] [poem of the week]
[privacy policy] [about me] [reciprocal links]