A desert oasis?

Sparkling blue pool

Flecked with sunlight

Brushed with light breeze

Lush green palm trees swaying

Gentle forest glade?

Petal’d wildflowers

Arching azure sky

Drifting cotton clouds

First hints of Autumn’s colors and crispness

Bounding ocean main?

Spread white canvas wings

Dolphins trailing our wake

Uncharted islands on the horizon

Where we anchor inside the reef

Whither Paradise?

A place we go when we die?

A promise of no more pain

No sorrow

No want, all needs met

All desires fulfilled

Or is Paradise

The absence of our basest evils?

No hate, no fear, no oppression

No disease, no poverty, no war

Existing rather in peace and love

And if this be Paradise

What prevents us

From having it today?

Rejecting all antithetical to it

Embracing love and empathy

Equality, and justice

Wherein we are all free

Empowered to realize our full potential

Thus realizing Paradise

By Mike Turner

From: United States

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