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As it was descending from the clouds, dad saw the tornado coming
he had been by the back door all evening looking
At the top of the hill, he saw it was dropping down
he’d been watching the clouds for a while, clearly seen,
his frown
He knew it was close; he could see the trees bend and sway
The temperature dropped quickly, which was strange
and out of the way
Round up all the kids and get them across the street
To the Creekmore’s cellar is where we would all meet
Both families met there. It was the usual place we would always go
It had rained, and we were standing on boards stretched across the water below
It was dark; we just had a candle. There wasn’t much air in the place
We were as close as sardines in a tin can, standing face to face
When the wind howled, I heard my mom start counting
as she did, we said our name our fear began mounting
We all said our names as mom went down the row
Starting with Teddy down to me, and then Robin should go
Mom got down to me, and I said my name
we waited for Robin to speak up, but nothing came
mom said to do it again, so we all said our names
we got to sister Robin, but it was still the same
we all knew at the moment there was nothing mom could do
Robin was left at the house; we silently waited for it to be through
When it was over, we saw the barn was missing
As our mama ran to the house, we were all wishing
That Robin had not been outside in the back playing when we left the house
We followed mama in the door. We were quiet as a mouse
A sigh of relief filled the air
When we saw Robin lying there
Sound asleep 💤
without making a peep
tornadoes on our hillside
made us always run and hide
Sister Robin slept through a tornado at one time. We didn’t mean to leave her there. We thought that we had all the kids rounded up and put into the cellar
Across the street at the Creekmore,s but we didn’t.
We should’ve known mama always counted heads 123 456-789-10,11 12, 13, and 14. she did it repeatedly till she got the correct number. One of us was always doing something she didn’t usually get a 13 on the first count