The Secret Place of Fanny McFluff

Little Fanny McFluff was of eight years and so very bright

She’d take a book and flashlight and read through the night

She would awaken when the sun kissed her high on the brow

And smile for her mother when told to milk the cow

Her chores were done early, each day, before school

She would run for her bus and obey every rule

Her lighthearted ways brought smiles to the town

As little Fanny McFluff would never own a frown

It was a warm summer day, though, that she was out and around

She caught a glimpse of a rabbit and she made not a sound

She hoped to then follow, to see where it would go

But was in for a surprise when she had falllen down its hole

So big and so ample, its home seemed to be

The rabbit turned around, surprised then to see

A person, no a girl, had entered its lair

So quickly it hopped and got out of there

Fanny, she liked this place that she had found

Alone, in this hole, below solid ground

She swore, with a flashlight, at night she’d come back

With decorations galore, packed in a sack

She prettied it up, with an old rug on the floor

She brought in some dolls and still had much more

Though she could not stand, she stayed on her knees

She made it so pretty, minding not the tight squeeze

Each day she’d return, with a warm smile on her face

As she knew it was hers, it was her secret place

She’d read and she’d sing, she’d write and she’d play

She’d be in that place almost every summer day

Sadly, one day a storm had come as a surprise

Where water filled the hole and boy did it rise

Because Fanny had her time, upset she was not

She was ever so grateful for the time that she got

Fanny kept that place in her mind and forever in her heart

The memories will live on and forever be a part

Often many days after, she would sit and recall

How there in that place she would have such a ball

So, Fanny to herself, locked her secret away

She unlocked it fondly, almost once every day

It seems that a secret place was not hard to find

Fanny McFluff kept her secret place, there, in her mind