boyhood alarm

Boyhood Alarm© Tony Fallon 112817

I was in my uncle’s garden climbing up the apple tree

When the branch broke and I fell and cut my right knee

There were no bones broken but there was a lot of blood

So I must have looked a sorry sight sitting there in the mud

You said if it was broken I’d be treated like cattle and horses

I’d have to be shot after they’d brought in the armed forces  

I had never seen you before and despite being very pretty

Talking about having me shot I could see you lacked pity
I asked if you could go in and ask the woman known as granny

For soap and a towel but not mention it to my uncle Danny

You went in and said “there’s someone dying out in the yard

And if he doesn’t die soon, for life he definitely will be scarred”

You almost gave poor granny an instant heart attack

And she tripped over the sleeping dog trying to get out back

She banged her head on the closet you thought she was dying

So you abandoned us and ran to your mother crying

So now in our family, there were two people down

Who was going to help us my auntie had gone to town

Unbeknownst to me Uncle Danny had taken the jeep

And was over in the main farm checking on the sheep

So granny was unconscious and I didn’t want to walk

And you were crying so much you couldn’t even talk

Thank God your poor mother became a bit alarmed

And worried that her neighbors had been harmed

I don’t know what she thought when she found me

Sitting with a bloodied knee in the muck beneath the tree

But once she found my granny I was quickly ignored

And no one bothered with me until granny was restored

After the excitement, you did come out with a cup of tea

And sounded like you were worried about my wounded knee

Thank God my cut was not too deep and I wasn’t maimed

It did get infected and for a week or so it was a bit inflamed

But I did recover fully and it didn’t really affect my life

I never imagined when I was seven you’d one day be my wife.

It’s Nov 28. 28 down and 2 to go