Neglected apple (written for kids from chat with Catalina, Frangipangi and Poetmaster)

 

While idly wandering
eating an apple
I remembered my friends
and had to grapple
with the needs of time
and perhaps make amends

We were supposed to meet
at the aquarium
to see the sharks
near the electric eels
I made utmost haste,
alas too late
‘twas the eels fault
their electric jolt,
had messed my electric clock
(normally kept in my sock)
it was now past ten
missed them then.


The apple meanwhile had felt rejected
so while I loitered at the aquarium
it became maladroited
and took solace not at a solarium,
but a local sanatorium.

Poor apple.