There's a Poet who dreams of a Gateway to Heaven Not some cold austere Gate bolted and closed in your face As if to say "Clear off! You're not wanted here anymore" But instead a lovely warm welcoming Gate A brightly colourful Gate with lots of bunting and ribbons on it And a big banner over the top announcing "Welcome Great Poet"
It'd be a bit...a bit like Noddy in Toyland And there'd be all these pretty young girls with bowls in their hands Spreading rose petals on the ground for me to walk upon A beautiful path laid out before me, a carpet of sweet scenting loveliness And there'd be other boys and girls there too strumming lutes and harps Like beautiful critics... singing my praises Inside the Gate it'd be like this wonderful Park With lovely flowers and shrubs and trees With marble fountains and statues and quiet flowing streams With radiant kids and beautiful people and lovely marquees like as if you were attending some wonderful party or banquet,
And then you'd hear a bustle in the hedgerow But it's only a bunch of publishers vying with one another Trying to get my signature on a multi million dollar contract Suddenly ahead of me there'd be this wonderful magnificent throne It'd be offered to me... offered to me as my true place... my true home And then a man would come and he'd humbly bow and kneel before me He'd be offering something to me.... Why! It's the Nobel Prize for Literature I'd smile and say "Ah shucks guys sure I was only doin' a few rhymes... and a few stories".