The babies had unraveled themselves
From their parents spool
Dropping to the floor on their soft fringed feet
No one heard as they patted down a windy path
Weaved their way to a silken sea
No one saw as they tangled themselves
Into the fibres of a ropey boat
And hid as the boats crew of scissors and crochet needles
Clicked and clacked their way
From stern to prow
The babies slid from The Ropey boat
Onto a flaxen shore and tip toed through mud and leaves
Through stringy gales
And thready storms
Over loops and bends
And kinks and streams
Until they found
Where the spinners lived.
The babies pulled strings from their tummies
Of golden and green
Strings from their heads of a shimmering sheen
Strings from each finger
Strings from both thumbs
Strings that held their laughter
And the glare from the sun
They piled these strings
Into the arms of the spinners
Who span and spun
Who twisted and twirled
Who knotted the strings from the baby boys and girls
And knitted and sewed
Until the spinners held
The longest, smartest, smoothest
Silliest scarf you've ever seen
With laughs from babies
And rays from suns
Trapped in its weave.
the babies leaped back
through the windy wind and the rain
Slipped onto the boat
And took on its earthly stain
Fell from the ship
In a matted mess
And wound their way to their parents
Who were crying in distress
“Where have you been”
They pleaded and pled
Why did you leave
What have we always said
Don't unravel
Don't let your frays touch the floor
Don't sneak out
When there are scissors abroad
And needles that will poke
and shorten your thread
Why did you go out
What's wrong with your heads
Then the babies
Unfurled their scarf of laughs
Their woolen stream of beams
And curled it around their parents
In never ending reams
And though the present was lovely
And got with the best of intention
The parents were angry
At the babies misdirection
And tied them tight to
To their rules of correction
They counted the babies in a stringy inspection
Until The babies learnt
That they shouldn't run off
No matter how good the reason
Because parents will worry
No matter what the season
Be it Christmas
Mother or Fathers day
Be it Easter or your brothers birthday
You should run off no matter
no way.