The Clarion Call Poem by Tony Adah

When you hear a klaxon blare
Don't hesitate
Right or left move
Search with your eyes
Search with your nose
Search with your ears
Where the klaxon blares

Someone with a tearful eye
Might need your mop
Someone somewhere sad
Might just need some light
Of your charming smile
Or someone hungry
Might well desire a crumb
Of food your pet
May have abandoned.

When you hear a klaxon blare
Don't hesitate
Rise up from your slumber
Go answer this clarion call
For life tosses partakers
Over hills and valleys.


When you hear a klaxon blare
Don't hesitate
For life is a vapour
Easily gone at your delay
And don't hesitate
For tomorrow's swirling
Eddies of the klaxon
May echo your turn.