Gunshin Date
The Samurai Squirrel
Max M. Power
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Copyright 2011 Max M. Power
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Gunshin Date
The Samurai Squirrel
There was a tap on my back door
I wondered who it could be
The back yard was empty
No one could I see.
I turned to walk away
The tapping began once more.
I looked outside again
Then I heard a tap from the floor.
I looked down
To see
A squirrel
Was looking up at me.
I opened the door
To shoo him away.
Inside he ran quickly
“Pardon the intrusion but with you I must stay.”
His fur fluffed out
As he shook the rain from his robe.
I’ve never heard of a talking squirrel
Anywhere in the globe.
“Greetings,” he said.
To which I replied, “Hi.”
A confused look on my face
As he spoke, “I am a Samurai.”
“May I start a fire
To warm my rain soaked soul?”
“No,” I protested.
“Away you must go.”
“But I am sworn to protect you,
A powerful enemy you have made.
Now an evil soul,
But who once was my aide.”
“What enemy,” I asked.
“What do you mean?”
“He is a Ninja,
One you have seen.”
“I’ve never seen a ninja,
Not in person anyway.”
“Ah but you did take his picture
One bright sunny day.”
“He ran across your lawn
And up in a tree.
You snapped many pictures
And posted them for all the world to see.”
“But he is just a squirrel
He can do me no harm.”
“Do not let it fool you,
Our squirrely charm.”
“I am a Samurai
My name is Gunshin Date.”
He drew his tiny Katana sword
“Our lives are intertwined by Fate.”
With a smile I knelt down
And my hand he did shake.
“I know we will become great friends
Little Samurai Date.”
THE END
Max was born in 1977 in Stockton, California. There Max stayed until he was five, when his family moved to Houston, Texas. Max still lives in Houston where he works full time and writes in his spare time.
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