It Was Just Another Day - A Poem
It Was Just Another Day
It was round about my tea time
My friends had all gone in
One by one their mums had shouted
But I was waiting still for mine
Should I go without being shouted?
Or should I wait until the call?
I was so happy standing there
Leaning up against the old stone wall
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
The old couple at number four
Had gone away for a couple of days
But at their open door
Stood a workman all dusty and gray
He was young and looked so pleasant
As he waved and smiled at me
Mum said I shouldn’t talk to strangers
But he wasn’t a stranger to me
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
He was the workman who had been there all day
Who we could see through the open door
Who had watched us while we were at play
And we had watched as he removed the floor
He was still smiling as he beckoned me over
In his hand a white paper bag
I knew that bag meant sweets were on offer
But in my head mum’s voice began to nag
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
But now my eyes were fixed on the sweets
And that little voice began to fade
I made my way over to the doorway
My decision had already been made
He asked if my house had a cellar
As I took my sweet from his white paper bag
I told him that it had not
And mum’s voice in my head began to nag
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
I told him it was getting late
And that I really had to go
Mum would be calling me soon for tea
And she would want me home pronto
He was really such a nice feller
Talking to me all gentle and kind
He asked me if I would like to see the cellar
And I said that I wouldn’t mind
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
I was always a curious child
Who like to see as much as I could
I was never one to be wild
I was more compliant and good
He jumped down into the hole
Where the floorboards had been
It looked so dark, dirty and cold
And all of a sudden I wasn’t so keen
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
But he laughed and said don’t you know
I’ll not let anything bad happen to you
You’ve no need to be frightened so
So I said ok, like a compliant girl would do
He lifted me over the threshold
And let me gently down into the hole
I was beginning to feel really frightened
And very very cold
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
He reached over and shut the door
Inside we were now all alone
And I was a little girl in a hole in the floor
Which I was too small to get out of on my own
There was a small mirror hanging on a nail
Right by the front door
He had his back to me and he was combing
His hair while I was under the floor
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
I was so young I didn’t know what was happening
I was little and didn’t know what to do
All I knew was that it was frightening
And that coming here had been wrong to do
I told him I had seen enough of the cellar
And that I wanted to go home right away
When he turned he was not the same feller
And looked at me in a very strange way
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
He lifted me up with one hand
I was only little you see
I thought I got caught on a nail
But it was him that was hurting me
And by now I was silently crying
Then He placed me on the floor
What was happening was so terrifying
And the hole was between me and the door
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
He tried to do many things to me
But for most of them I was far too small
I was not much more than a baby
In the end I was not much use at all
He covered himself and redressed me
And he talked like nothing had happened at all
He got out his sweeties slowly and calmly
And he said now don’t blubber and bawl
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
He smiled and said to me brightly
I am sending you home now you see
Then suddenly and more darkly
Said don’t tell anyone about me
He lifted me over the gap in the floor
And put me out through the opened the door
At last I was outside and free
What happened had to stay just with me
The birds sang their songs
It was just another day
The far off dogs barked their barks
It was just another day
© Annie Laurie 2009
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