My brother's invention: The Snow Toe Alarm

The Snow Toe Alarm

But everyone had been in such a hurry

Milk and bread to beat the flurry.

It feels so cold and the air seems right

There has to fall some snow tonight.

How could I ever fall asleep?

Not knowing will the snow be deep?

Now it’s late and the truth is cruel.

Tomorrow will come and we may have school.

Please dear snow, start to fall

So that they can make the call,

And declare tomorrow a special day

When kids can slip and sled and play.

It’s time for bed and the air is clear

I close my eyes and face my fear

That I will wake having missed it all

The beauty held in the snowflakes fall

My brother feels the same way too

And so he says, “I know what to do.

I‘ll tie a long string upon my toe

and run it out our upstairs window.”

He will hang a bucket on that string

And it will work like an alarm clock ring

The bucket weighted down with snow

will yank upon his little toe.

He will be wakened by this action

Giving us the satisfaction

Into a deep sleep we can fall

Without the worry of missing it all.