The rain was falling hard today,
this morning it almost made me go blind,
until a brown cottontail bunny stood in my way,
informing me all would be just fine.
He said, “Be careful cowboy, as you drive,
beware the puddles in the road,
son keep your eyes open like you are alive,
please don’t run over the Goddamn toad!”
I was in sudden shock,
my breathing went kind of wild,
I simply didn’t know how to act!
This brown bunny was reprimanding me like I was a child,
such a thing I did never expect!
As this torrid rain fell so thickly,
I could hear him loud and clear!
Was this experience the product of some dark magician’s trick?
Why did I feel I should ever fear?
Though I plodded along ever so slowly in my car,
still I heard this bunny speak,
I perceived his voice though I passed him far,
my blood ran cold until I felt weak.
“Well have a nice day as you muddle along,
son take great care as you drive,
for should your wheels e’er slide so wrong,
you might not make it back home alive.”
When I glanced up,
looking backward in my mirror,
this brown cotton tailed bunny hopped on off.
I strayed from the road and toward a tree I drove nearer,
only to make it back on with the extra time I had bought.
This author is a national & international academic/ ESL instructor. He has been an author for over thirty years now, being published in a variety of journals, magazines and by a number of companies. He loves traveling, archeology and many other outdoor activities. What he loves most of all, however, is meeting new interesting people who are some of his loyal fans.