OUTSIDE HER DOOR.

She has done more for this country

Than you or I,

Or anyone we will ever know,

And today she’ll be serenaded outside her

Balcony

By a band

Of troubadours thanking

Her gratefully,

And afterwards

A beacon will be lit

To give signal to the commonwealth

That all is healthy here.

And fireworks no doubt will flash passed

The masonry of ages 

On their way into the spaces above;

Showering the crowds below with love’s

Colours

And glows,

And then to follow

A gallery

Of images

Will glimmer upon

The front of the Palace like the grandest

Cinema in town.

And down down down the Mall will come

An even greater multitude

Of people waving Union flags

To pack into the orbit of Victoria;

In glory

And to honour

Elizabeth’s life’s story,

Which echoes

Our own,

And shows

That we belong to something larger

Than ourselves.