Christopher the Crocodile's Lost Handkerchief

Christopher the crocodile hadn't smiled for a while...

He'd lost his handkerchief in a sloppy mud pile !

As everyone knows, he cried crocodile tears...

So got a new hankie each Christmas for years !

His favourite colour was yellow and blue,

When he blew his nose, off his sunglasses flew !

So it was hardly surprising that ...

The handkerchief was no longer under his summer hat !

What was he to use to dry his eyes ?

He sobbed some more...to the fireflies !

The snake looked all around the ground,

The mole underneath the elephant dung mound !

Still no hankie ! Where could it be ?

What could he use as a serviette for tea?

Perhaps it was taken by a thief....

Or instead he could use a banana leaf !

It could had fallen beneath the coconut trees,

When last week he started to sneeze !

Or maybe it blew away in the breeze....

Christopher checked by the waterhole rocks...

Then suddenly got one of life's humungus shocks !

There sat upon his long tail, slimy and green,

Was the dirtiest handkerchief ever seen !

Christopher was aghast !

He'd found it at last ! Now his crying was a thing of the past !