The Sweetest Things

All the sweetest things I've enjoyed
in my life are dead.
The best meal I ever ate
has long since joined the fish and tides.
The sweetest kiss in the winter sunshine
was blown to the icy sky.
That thrilling pill so full of fun
has gone forever down the drain.
Why then do I still love and crave
meals and pills that give me pain?
Why have I not learned?
The things in the world are loved
for the feeling they give inside,
yet how much better to find the source
and the thrills that never die.
If I love God and bring down heaven
then all peace and joy are mine,
the sweetest things I will enjoy
and never will they die.
DH