13/28 | 2.13.18 | February Writing Challenge

13/28 | February Writing Challenge

13. When have you experienced "heaven on earth?"

Heaven on earth wasn't hard for me to find.

I often found it while not even looking for it at all, actually.

Like Persephone wandered into the Underworld unknowingly, I was somehow able to locate my own personal heaven without trying. Heaven was present in the most unsuspected places.

It was as simple as falling asleep next to someone I loved after a long day in our own personal hell and then waking up to find them still by my side with no intention of leaving. 

Heaven was apparent in the soft tone of voice used to calm me down out of my frantic mania while my white knuckles gripped a steering wheel, and the grazing fingertips aglow in the luminescence of a summer storm.

I used to find heaven so easily, but I think the gates have closed on me now. I haven't been to heaven in a very long time.
Persephone wandered into the Underworld and found the love of her life, but I wandered into heaven and never found it again.