U.S.S. Imagination

“Mommy, Mommy I don’t want to read

I want to sit and watch t.v.

On the couch with channel two

Laugh and see the best cartoons

 

But this show is old, it is a re-run

And I’m bored because I’ve seen this one

Mommy what am I supposed to do

When there’s nothing to watch on the tube?”

 

My mommy said with a smile real wide

“If you are bored, then play outside.”

So out I went and up a tree

And I was surprised at what I could see

 

But I got bored again, so I scurried down

Then decided to ride my bike around

I raced like the wind to the park

But no one was there, and it wasn’t even dark

Where have all the adventures gone?

I wondered as I peddled home

 

Back at home and something was weird

My mom had gone and disappeared

“Hey sis,” I said. “Where is mom?”

I asked her as I bounced around

She told me mom had things to do

And that she would return real soon

 

Still I was bored so I grabbed the remote

But each channel had the same as before

Then the door opened wide and my mother walked in

With a handful of books and the same wide grin

 

“I brought you adventures!” she said with a wave

“A new, far off place on every page.”

“Reading!” I said.  “I do that in school!

And that stuff is boring, and not very cool.”

 

“Boring, huh? Like you’ve been all day?

Read a few books and then go out and play.”

I picked up the books and stomped to my bed

These books would just sit there and never be read

 

But boredom came back and I’d had enough

And I saw that the books had pirates and stuff

So I opened a cover and started a page

And before I had realized I was taken away

Into the stars with sword fights and heroes

This reading is FUN, and not just for zeroes!

 

It took me all week, but I finished the tale

And then ran outside and started to yell

“Ahoy Mateys!  I’m in search of the gold

You’ll all walk the plank unless its secret is told.”

I climbed that old tree like the mast of a sail

Then I saw through the park a new pirate trail

 

So I hopped on my bike…oops I mean boat

And I peddled real fast to find the lost coast

What did I find through the trees big and stout?

The boys from my school in a pirate hideout

 

Our moms had all told us to read and go play

And now I was having an incredible day!

My imagination was full of ideas from a book

Now I’ll always have fun, ‘cause I know where to look.