What would happen
if (and I do say ‘if’)
I did get to Heaven…
and it was full?
Would I have to wait
outside St. Petersgate
in a waiting room?
And what if that waiting room
outside St. Petersgate…
was also full?
Would I have to take a ticket
from a ticket machine
and await my turn?
Await my fate?
And could I wait
all patiently
If the number on my ticket
was twenty-nine trillion…
and seventy-eight?
I do have patience;
but, not the patience of a saint.
What would be my options?
Would the chance of a place in Heaven
be more than faint?
And I did say ‘if’ I went to Heaven.
What, pray tell,
might befall,
if I went the other way?
Graeme Sandford 