Gratitude

Birthdays come but once a year A day we celebrate, a day to cheer We all know the day we're born and our age For birthdays bring us joy or change of stage The day I celebrated my fourty-ninth year On the other side of the world fear Horror for a young girl named Heather Who was swimming in ocean waters from boat tethered Swimming around the ocean deep Working up an appetitate for something to eat Was a great white shark fourteen feet, whopper Jaws powerful enough to bite through copper At home I thought I had turned fifty I figured this year would be very nifty My father who was in his nineties Reminded me that I was only fourty-ninty In a land way down yonder A girl named Heather was pulled under Great white figured she was good meat Nice and tender a very tasty treat A girl named Heather was saved That very day lived to be one to praise People who worked to keep her alive She praised God who lives in hearts and on high Sara lived many years Saw her grandsons through tears She was the strength and glue Who saw her family's problems through Just in recent years in a land down under A fourteen foot great white shark did blunder Caught in a fisherman's net He'll probably live this mistake regret No, the fisherman cuts the lines Frees his catch and shark from bind Now the shark he named Cindy Follows him around even when windy Follows him everywhere he goes Let's him pet her on her nose Rub her belly and dorsal fin She even grunts and tries to grin Which of these do you think is the most grateful Heather who is now disable The shark who was spared his life Or Sara the mother, grandmother, and wife (The story about Heather is true. The shark circled and bit her right leg. Then circled and grabbed her left leg. The people on the boat were hitting the shark and try to pull her into the boat and the shark took her whole left leg off. She was only attended by a nurse who was on the boat and radioed a doctor on shore as to what to do. She was 20 hours away from the nearest doctor. She was lifeflighted to a hospital in California where she had to have multiple surgeries and now has an artificial leg. The story about the shark caught in a fisherman's net was really not true. The grandmother here was a true story.)