• Water overpools her eyes
    Tears run down her cheeks
    Silently as she cries
    Unconsciously she speaks
    “The water is so deep, too deep!
    The duckies they will drown!
    They will weep a weep
    As they are pulled down!
    No one here would save a duck
    No one here can swim!
    The duckies are almost out of luck!”
    She cried as she jumped in.
    No one would believe her
    There were no ducks to die
    They watched the water stop its stir
    As she left view of human eye
    When she sank down to the sand
    She cradled something in her arms
    She finally made it back to land
    The crowed stared in alarm
    What she held did not breathe
    What she saved did not sigh
    The cradled object did not heave
    The poor thing did not cry.
    “It’s your fault! Why would you not listen!
    Now the baby duckies have to rest.”
    The wet body of the baby proved to glisten.
    The crowed noticed, too late, the ducks on her dress.