If

• Jamie Blomfield, Grade 5, Waitoki School
• Poetry
• 2000

3rd in the 'Watch Out! 2000' competition

If all the vegetables were small fire breathing dragons,
We would have a very hard time eating our dinner.
If all the trees were lions,
We would have to watch where we were going very carefully.
If all our parents were big dragons,
We would have to be very good.
If all the computers came to life and took over the world,
Who knows what would happen.
If all the clocks had a mind of their own,
We would never know what time it was.
If all the flowers grew big and ate you up,
There wouldn’t be any kids left.
If all the animals turned into teapots,
We wouldn’t have very nice tea.
So lets be grateful,
The world is how it is.