The Invention of Gunpowder

O springy woodland creatures

I admire you so

And your ability to be unfazed

By arrow or by bow

Whether we throw pebbles

Or rocks or maybe trees

Or maybe even beehives,

Though we must watch out for bees,

You merely scoff at our attempts

To capture thy true form

We try and fail then try again

As is our human norm

We have continued in this manner

Until someone in the East

Invented a new trick

He realized, soon, that he was in for a feast

For you see, this man of the orient

Discovered this new formula

Of Blowing up things

Bwahaha!!!! BWAHAHAA!!!

And so began the end of chivalry

And all things stalwart

Knights were shot with tiny bullets

As Castles were also wrought

With giant holes in the middle

Because of Cannonballs, as surely they were ought!

And though the springy woodland creatures had thought,

“They’d never win!”

They didn’t know, o poor fools,

The mess that they were in