Unless everyone gets into heaven,
nobody does,
for it wouldn’t be heaven
without each of us

It couldn’t be heaven
without including
the utter end of condemnation,
that nobody can be a loser,
no one lost, no one left out

And everyone who’s been annoyed by me,
and anyone for whom I’ve felt annoyance –
We’ll all be reconciled, we’ll be forgiven,
and thus experience
the peace that is the reign of heaven.

©Wendy Mulhern
May 11, 2020