POETRY COLLECTION

And my Ears

Now, don’t be frightened, look my dear

sit down and please and do not fear

The words that I have come to say 

my head is fine, it's all OK

I need to tell you while I'm here

so gather round, come right up, near

 

Some advice for you and all you know

This is something very important so……

 

I woke this morning, in the pond

I was clinging to a palm leaf frond,

 

I blinked into the water see

And found there was something wrong with me

I realised I looked rather odd

For my ears were missing, both of them gone

 

I nearly drowned; it was quite close

I’d lost my only shoe and both

My ears from either side my head!

Without them I’ll be surly dead

I had to look for them right away

I could not leave it another day

 

But those ears were hiding very good

I checked all the places that I should

 

The bathroom, kitchen, toilet to

Oh woe was me!  what could I do

 

The dog’s bed was the next place to look

After that I checked every book

 

That we had on the bedroom shelf

I wonder, I began to think to myself

 

If my ears have gone behind the couch

All I found was a chewy, a pencil and a pouch

 

 

But not my ears!  O where were they

I needed them back, and right away

 

I began to scream, my ears are gone!

I wonder, I wonder, just how long

 

It will take me to fall over and die

What if next I loose my eye?

 

O, I had to find my ears but and came

To wonder if they were down the drain

 

On one last search; they were not there

I began to pull out all my hair

 

And as I pulled, in the mirror I stood

And saw something marvellous, if I would

 

There where my ears!  Hidden under my hair!

They never left, they were just there

 

All along they had never left my head

So now I will not end up dead

 

And this the lesson I tell to you—

 

Don’t wet your hair,

Whatever you do