Go through this church door,
You'll find a church.
Go through the church,
You'll find a church garden.
Go through the church garden,
You'll find the world.
After that world,
You'll find Jesus.
After Jesus,
You'll find planets.
After the planets,
You will find a black sky with stars.
After those stars
You will find a black sky with nothing in it.
Lily Rogers was 6 years old and attended kindergarten at Sacred Heart school in San Francisco, California when this poem appeared.
This appears in the July 1992 issue of Sojourners
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