Ogre

By Noma Osburn

Og the ogre, he lived in a cave.
Large and monstrous was he.
Humans and animals he craved.
He was the scariest he could be.
No one ever escaped unscathed,
his big sharp long machete

He had big ugly bulging eyes
With long pointy sharp teeth
For a human it was his demise
In a cave with blood underneath
You heard for miles their cries
When his terror he unleashed

One day he went to the village,
and captured two humans to eat.
Tore down houses and did pillage.
He sacked them up for his meat.
He considered it his own privilege.
For him it was trick or treat.

But when he emptied the sack,
He found that he had caught a lass,
and a very beautiful one at that.
tied her up with chains of brass.
He found her pleasing to look at.
She looked like a lady of class.

The man he stepped on and killed.
He so hungrily gulped him down.
The maid sang out, voice trilled.
So beautiful notes, echoed round.
Og, he was thoroughly thrilled,
amazed at the magic sound.

The ogre, hesitated his chewing.
Enchanted was he at what he heard,
that he forgot what he was doing
Hypnotized by the little song bird
His hard heart she started soothing
and his favor she then incurred

The lass knew her song just might
save her from becoming dinner
She thought to overcome her plight
And would trick the big hungry ogre
she sang him a lullaby good night
even despite the caves strong odor

When Og woke up the next morning
he ordered her to sing out her song,
so she thought a bit, started singing,
higher her notes went, high and long
Passing a lad heard a voice ringing
he felt there was something wrong

He snuck inside the cave and saw
the large ogre and the poor lass tied
Waiting till night Og began to yawn
The lad crept in the cave, Og he spied
So he cut off his head with a hacksaw
he rescued the lass, took her outside

He became a great hero of the land
The lad that killed the big terrible Og
The lass he knelt, asked for her hand
To the villagers he gave his epilogue
They went to live in a house grand
Never again to be afraid
of the hungry ogre Og

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