One Foot in Heaven

One Foot in Heaven

For just one moment
Faint echo of exalted chorus
Breaks into my dreaming,
Veil rips, slipping,
As blinking,
Blinded by the Light,
I open sleep-encrusted eyes
And get a glimpse of heaven
Right here
‘Midst the drowsing crowd.

Can’t we see the throne and King;
Hear heaven’s voices blend with ours
As eternity, kneeling,
Praises One beyond all praise;
Taste the honeyed sweetness of
Feast hidden in Flesh and Blood,
His and ours?

Insensate, we drowse,
One foot in heaven
Yet oh, so lost in dream.