No-One Else… Poem by Margaret Alice

-I had a special friend- said the crocodile
-an alligator who listened to what I said,
then he was invaded by a virus, probably
Kaspersky, maybe something else, now
he is gone, I have to carry on

All alone, crying when nobody is looking,
I cry about my friend, the only one who
responded to my song, now he is gone
there is no-one else- -The fault is yours-
the Blue Fairy severely said

-You have been warned before that your
anti-social ways will isolate you from
mammalian life, people move in groups,
find a group and walk with them- -That
I cannot do- the crocodile sadly sighed

- I’m a reptile, my brain is primitive & skew,
I cannot think in sophisticated terms as the
mammals do with their evolved cortex, there
is no-one else– -Fiddlesticks- sounded
the rebuke

-Practically perfect crocodiles always seek to
serve their fellow men– at this the crocodile
broke down, crying louder than before -I lost
my alligator friend- she sobbed -There is no-
one else- Mary Poppins tried

To soothe the poor old crocodile, but soon, and
for the first time ever, she was reduced to tears
herself, the crocodile knew, once Mary Poppins
cried, the world was coming to an end…