Secrets All Around

We were sent on an errand My sister Faith and I But it ended up being a mission Because there were bunnies to love And geese to chase and a baby bunny to save We had a little basket full of eggs To bring back from our grandmother's house Just over the hill. Grandma had fresh hot pancakes waiting So like her! We were on time, singing our Frere Jaques song The one that is also called Are you Sleeping Since we speak French and English We were getting too loud, and Old Man E.E. shushed us We looked sharply to see him more closely. He was Grandma's beau, And only kidding us. We gave him quick hugs and continued Strange that he was going to Grandma's After we left, huh? He was a weird man. The mommy bunny was hopping around in an unusual hop So we stopped to take a peek. She had five babies At first we thought they were rats, ugly like that Hairless, with closed slits where eyes should be But they were hers, and she wanted us to do something We thought maybe they were uncomfortable We took the eggs out of the basket And gently picked up the bunnies, Putting them into the basket. Now what? It looked like rain, so we moved them to shelter Under a huge oak. Mommy bunny hopped next to us. She seemed grateful. We kind of needed the basket back But this was not to be; they looked so comfy and stuff. We held the eggs in our aprons. Breaking only three of them. We would explain to grandma about her basket later An animal lover too, she would fully understand. BAM! CRASH! When we heard the first two thunderclaps We hugged each other over our mutual complicit caper Our secret kept us giggling at each other all day long. Our mother suspected it was something grandma did.