The Piper

[sroni]

I wrote a poem. Yeah, ME, wrote a poem. I am NOT a poet. At all. Maybe, MAYBE, once a year, I come out with a poem that I like. And that's tops. But this poem... I think it's really good. It's inspired by the poem that Walter writes that's mentioned, but never actually written down so that WE could read, in Rilla of Ingleside.



The Piper calls, asking for a guard,

who won't give up when the fighting is hard,

who will keep on if their bodies are marred.

I have heard the Piper's call,

and I will answer the Piper's call.



The Piper plays a plaintive song,

saying that the days and nights will be long,

and Oh, I wish that it was wrong!

But I have heard the Piper's call,

and I have answered the Piper's call.



The Piper pleads for more to come,

to rescue those who are meek and dumb,

and the voices begin with a mighty hum:

"We have heard the Piper's call,

and We have answered the Piper's call!"



I have heard the Piper's call,

and if tomorrow I may fall,

lay me down on that grassy knoll.

For I have heard the Piper's call,

and I have answered the Piper's call.