From Fiction To Fact a Twisted Fairy Tale

From Fiction to Fact ( A Twisted Fairy Tale) Fairy tales of giants and trolls. Goblins in the holes Elves living in golden glades High in the trees singing musical retrieves Dragons flying with human magicians Witches both good and evil to tantalize our imaginations, Mermaids in watery kingdoms under the seas. And don’t forget the greatest of all Hobbits and their holes. But which tale suits us best In this world of the covid test? Is it the tale of Pipe-Piper? And the rat plague, how he magically Played a tune to lead those rats away? And wasn’t it something about the children all Were placed in quarantine in the magical hills A children’s paradise of fairy folk to save them Or so it may seem away from all ill? The parents cried and blamed him the Piper For taking away the children as if he was An evil leach with only tales of some madness That they could only believe nor have any forgiveness Until the threat of illness was no longer Our hero Piper lead all the children home And families where once again reunited all the fonder. I must admit this tale really does fit our own world And into our lives right now as we all strive towards The goal of the greater good to beat this viral corona With lock-downs and vaccines and of course quarantine Of clarity , this tale of the Piper who in my own mind Is the hero who saved the children from the plague. And just maybe if you have a young one in the family Just maybe telling this tale to help them see reality.