Steve

There once was a man

in the outback.

With the red sand

he resided.

 

A crocodile hunter,

protecting the creatures

of ocean and outback

alike.

 

Saving his subjects

from his own kind.

People thought he was crazy.

And out of his mind.

 

But he saved all the animals,

and learned so much more.

Whether deep in the outback

or the ocean floor.

 

Through bug bites

and snake ones,

this man did live on.

Then one day,

this guy was gone.

 

Below the blue

And beneath the the ocean.

This culprit did live.

An animal

he wanted to give

a chance to live.

A chance to he,

it did not give.

 

A stab in the heart,

with his poison syringe.

It spread through his blood,

and then back again.

 

And now to our hero

Well, dis is the en'
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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