You wake up and you find the mists pursuing heavens gate <br />like barley twist they fold with fumes from your last cigarette <br />you rise as they caress you reaching underneath your skin <br />another step to heaven from the hell your living in <br /> <br />Lamplights from the street break in like bricks through window panes <br />another step to heaven watching treetops bend and sway <br />a heartbeat like a clubbed foot kicking deep inside your chest <br />persuading the last fumes to leave from your last cigarette <br /> <br />And glory reaches out with hands like grapnels from a gun <br />your eyes percieve the memories of everything youv'e done <br />the shadows from the temples cross your path like swords of war <br />another step to heaven reaches grasping you like straw <br /> <br />The fires of a million eyes tempt Hades to your dance <br />with flames that tickle prostitution down for some romance <br />the bells that toll in ricochets declaring from the gloom <br />that heaven waits to greet you and another step comes soon <br /> <br />With barriers of pig iron casting spears you make your way <br />the songs of perceverance crumble at the cross they make <br />the weight of souls upon you drags your feet across the earth <br />like the scraping of the stub you had from your last cigarette <br /> <br />The toil you endured upon the path you had to take <br />brings fear of restitution as your mind cuts through the wake <br />your body bends and bares the scars the gorse of time has claimed <br />as you reach the door to heaven and you're asked to give your name.<br /><br />Charles M. Moore<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/another-step-to-heaven/
