Wherever it Goes
I follow my nose
Wherever it goes
It keeps me out of trouble
When some things we fear
I cannot see clear
It warns me on the double
Like smoke in a room
Before a ka-boom
That none of us can see
It’s hidden by the door
And burning much more
My nose is telling me
The message is clear
I must flee from here
A fire! Is on the way
So outside I go
To the place that we know
Where my parents told me to stay
My parents meet me
Under the tree
That I do love to climb
To find it’s not hard
It’s in the backyard
I can find it every time
So there we all stay
It’s no time to play
We have to stay still and wait
Waiting what for?
I need patience, lots more
It’s fire trucks
We anticipate
Soon a siren we hear
The trucks must be near
That didn’t take too long
Now you can see
Why we should stay by the tree
Leaving it would be wrong
Now the firemen jump out
We give them a shout
“Hooray! We’re so glad you came”
Our house is on fire
The flames rising higher
But they run in just the same
When the firemen ran in
Dad said with a grin
“They will put out the flames”
In ran four
Then came some more
They never told me their names
At the tree, we stood near
Feeling both dread and fear
For all of the firemen sake
Heat you could see
Fire you could hear
Hot enough, to bake a cake
After a bit
Those flames did submit
And a fireman did reappear
His hat was still smoking
But he was not choking
He sang out “all is clear”
Please pardon me
If I scared you, you see
I didn’t mean any harm
This had to seem real
It was a fire drill
Not just a false alarm
Randy McArthur
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