Good Work On The Birthday Front State Troopers!

We all know that wearing a shield is danger fraught

Something so innocent as a traffic stop could get you shot

The motto and slogan has two parts to protect and  to serve

Protect is easy as it involves giving the bad guys what they deserve

But the serve part is more complex and calls for a wider range of skills

 If not performed well community relations quickly go down hill

In Hot Springs, Arkansas, fortunately the State Troopers have those skills

A boy’s wish for a birthday party they were able to fulfill

21 invites to a ten year old’s celebration a mom sent out

Five were supposed to show up but on the big day zero was the count

Birthdays for adults are not a big deal unless you are getting up in years

But for a ten year old a lot of disappointment and probably some tears

Mom posted on her Facebook account her son’s sad tale

Probably cursing herself that as a mom she thought she had failed

Two days later there was a knock on the door

Loud enough not to ignore

Five State Troopers not with a warrant to serve or  guns drawn

But to celebrate with presents and a cake stepping up from the lawn

Somehow they had learned of the birthday party that went so flat

And good for them they acted to remedy that

For an hour or so shooting baskets with the boy

Munching cake and watching him with their gifts enjoy

This is a story of a community that reaffirms one’s belief in the inherent goodness of mankind

Yet another way that “to serve” to the joy of a ten year old was happily defined

© April 12, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet 
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