A Prayer

(for Jack Worthing.)

 

I hope

there's a special place in Heaven

for the really good.

 

I bet it

takes

ages to get there.

 

And you have to mind the gate

as its come off it's hinges

(But probably you'll have some string.)

 

I bet you can't even see the path!

what with the thistles

and the poppies

 

and all that long lazy grass

waving in the wind...

 

But you'll get there...

 

And you'll have

a good old

natter

 

with

the angels.

 

And perhaps, after a few hundred years,

 

you'll stand up,

 

put your hands on your hips

 

and ask 

 

Do they need

 

any help

 

with that hedging..?

 

 


 

 

 

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