Is Heaven Real? (Bowlesian Sonnet - iambic tetrameter 2020)

“Is there a Heaven after Death?
A place so beautifully blessed
beyond a mind could ever guessed?”
I wonder as I catch my breath
beneath the maple trees I dreamt
and as their leaves begin to fall
right off these trees so red and tall.
It is as if the leaves are meant
to be the people here on Earth
who have detached from life itself
to pile on ground to bid farewell
to trees who raised the leaves since birth.
I close my eyes and think this through
Is Heaven real? I wish I knew.